Using the Live Editor

The Cosmos “Live” editor is also known as a WYSIWYG editor. That stands for “what you see is what you get.”

Two famous WYSIWYG editors are Google Docs and Microsoft Word.  These word processors that allow you to edit a document, and as you edit, you see exactly how it will print.

We call this “live” editing because as you create content, you immediately see how it will appear--"live!"

Getting Started

The live editor that comes with Cosmos is “CKEditor.” Outside of Microsoft Word online and Google Docs, we think it is the best WYSIWYG editor on the planet!

Here are two primary ways you can open the editor:

Navigate to page

While using the editor, navigate to the page you want to edit. Click the edit button, then choose “Live editor.”

Note: If you do not see “Live editor,” it means the page can only be edited with the code editor.

From the page inventory

From any page on the editor, choose “Menu” then “Pages.”

Then use the page inventory to find the page, and select it.

From the page version list, choose the Live editor button.

Accessing the toolbar

Once you have the editor open, click on an editable area.  You will see off the left edit six dots like this:

Click on those dots and the toolbar will open.  The next picture shows what the various buttons on the toolbar do.

Video Demonstration

Publishing a Page

While working on a web page you may notice the toolbar may say “DRAFT (not published)” and next to that a “Publish Now” button.

As you work, the page is not visible on your website because it is saving draft versions of your page.

There are two options for making your web page public.

Publish Now

To make a web page available immediately, click the “Publish Now” button.

This will save the web page right away, make it available immediately, and the “Publish Now” button will become the “Make Draft” button.

Publish in the future

If you want the page to be made available at a future date and time, click the area that says “Draft (not published)” on the toolbar.

This will bring up a calendar widget.

Use this tool to pick the day and the time you want the current page version to go live.

Note: This uses your local time.  If for your example, you are in the Pacific time zone, and you pick 8:30 AM, Cosmos automatically adjusts for global time zones.  So, in this case users in London will see the article at 12:30 AM (or 1:30 AM for daylight savings).