Pending Items: Preview

Use the Pending Items Preview mode to preview items that are pending approval directly on the page. Both users who submit items for approval and those that are approvers of items can use this mode. Users can access this mode when viewing approval notifications in the My Notifications portlet by clicking the page link for the item, or by clicking Pending Items: Preview when editing a page.

From this mode, you can:

For more information, see Using the Pending Items Preview mode.

Note: You can only see the links for actions that you are authorized to perform. If you do not see a particular link, you do not have the page group or page privileges to perform that action.

From this mode, you can also access the other editing views and perform editing functions on the page.

This page contains:

Editing Views

Click:

  • Graphical to edit the content of the page in a more WYSIWYG view.

  • Layout to add and configure the regions in the page, and also perform some tasks on multiple objects in the page.

  • List to perform tasks on multiple items in the page.

Mobile

Click Preview to preview how the page would look in a mobile device.

Note: This mode is only available if mobile support is enabled for your portal.

Return to View Page

Click to display the page without the editing tools.

Note: This link changes to "Return to View Template" when editing a template.

Page Group

Click Properties to edit the properties of the page group to which this page belongs.

Page

Click:

  • Properties to edit the properties of the page. For example, you can change how the page is cached, apply a different style to the page, or control who can access the page.

  • Style to choose a different style to apply to the page, or edit the style that is currently applied to the page.

  • Access to specify who can access the page and what actions they can perform on it.

Note: The Style and Access links do not appear when the page is based on a template that does not allow pages based on it to specify their own style or access.

Create

Click Sub-Pages to create another page beneath this page.

Edit Template

Click to edit the template on which the current page is based. After you click this link, another link displays in this link's place, "Back to Page". You can click this after you edit the template. It returns you to the page on which you started.

Note: This only appears when the page you are editing is based on a template.

Path

Displays the path of the current page. Click a link to go to a page higher in the hierarchy.

Go to Page

Click to go to a page (that you select) in the current editing mode.

Builder

Click to go to the Builder page.

Navigator

Click to display the Navigator.

Help

Click to display help for the page (this is the link you clicked to access this topic).

 

Related topics

Approving an item
Enabling approvals and notifications
Setting up an approval process for a page
Setting up an approval process for a page group
Setting up expiry notifications for a page group
Customizing the My Notifications portlet
Customizing the My Approval Status portlet
Customizing the Pending Approvals Monitor portlet