Editing an existing entry

Editing an item entry in SheerCMS is done using the Administrative consoles List Management view.

Log into the SheerCMS Administration console and select "Lists" from the top menu. The List Management view is shown displaying a list of all the lists within your SheerCMS website.

Select list to manage

Select the list you wish to manage and press the "Manage Entries" button.

Select list entry to edit

The list entry has a number of values available to populate:

  • Title - This is the short title text. It is used as the link if a hyperlink is specified.

  • Date - This is the relevent date of the article. It is used as the publication date by the RSS feed control and when filtering entries to display on those in the past or future.

  • Link - This is a hyperlink to a web resource that is related to the list item.

  • Decription- This allows more complex, HTML content to be associated with the item.

List entry editor

Select the entry that is to be editied.

The Title, Date, Link and Description controls will be automatically populated with the entries content.

Once the entry has been edited, press the "Update" button, the entry is updated and the list of entries is refreshed to show any changes.