Basic Training Cheat Sheet

A comprehensive reference for reviewing all Basic Training topics.

Whether you need to reinforce your foundational knowledge or simply review core concepts, this page serves as a quick and comprehensive reference for all essential topics covered in Basic Training.

• Login: cascade.wm.edu
• Help pages: wm.edu/cascade

Navigating Cascade

• Primary navigation (menus) are found in a single row across the top of the screen.
• The Cascade logo acts as a link to your dashboard.
• The Site dropdown takes you to your site's server.
• Search shows your starred items & the most recent 10 items you've selected in Cascade.
• After you've selected your server from the Site dropdown, additional elements include:
  • Add Content allows you to create new folders, pages and files.
  • Site Content links to your server's top folder in the Folder Navigation Tree.
  • The Folder Navigation Tree shows your content folders, pages and files.
    • Right-click on any item to take action on it directly.
    • Item names match the URL path for your site's content.
  • The Trash at the top of the Folder Navigation Tree holds your deleted folders, pages and files for 15 days.

Getting to Your Content

Navigate to Your Content

After selecting your server from the Site dropdown, use the Folder Navigation Tree to locate your site's main folder. Select a page or file to open it. To select a folder, hover over the folder and select the arrow that appears to the right of the folder's name.

Use History

• Select Search in the top menu bar for the 10 most recent items you have selected, or
• Select My Content in the top menu bar for an enhanced History screen.

Editing Existing Content

• Select the appropriate page or file from the Folder Navigation Tree or from your History.
• Select Edit at the top of the preview.
• Make your changes. Select Preview Draft – then choose Submit >> Check Content & Submit.

Upload Images/Upload Documents

• Remove any spaces and capital letters in your image/file names before uploading them into Cascade.
• Navigate to your documents or images storage folder.
• From the top menu bar, choose Add Content >> Image (or File).
• Enter a Display Name.
• Drag-and-drop your file/image or click to choose one from your computer.
• Select Save & Preview – then choose Submit >> Check Content & Submit.

Add New Content Page

• Locate and select the parent folder where the new child page will be created.
• From the top menu bar, select Add Content >> Folder with Content Page.
• Enter a Folder Name (lowercase, no spaces).
• Enter a Display Name.
• Use the checkbox to choose whether to display the item in the page menu.
  • Remember you can uncheck this box while you work on the page. Recheck it when you are ready to publish the page in your menu.
• Submit.
• Edit the index page.
• Enter a Title and the page content.
• Select Save & Preview – then choose Submit >> Check Content & Submit.

Add Image to Page

• In the edit mode of a page, place your cursor where the image should be added (generally at the beginning of a paragraph or heading).
• Select the Insert/edit image mountain icon.
• Select Choose File and browse to your images folder.
• Choose the uploaded image file.
• Enter descriptive alt text.
• Select the image alignment from the Styling list.
  • Note: Captions will not appear until you preview your page.

Create Links

• Highlight your desired text and select the Insert/edit link chain icon.
• For internal links, browse to and Choose the page.
  • An internal link points to a page that exists within your Cascade site. If you can browse to the destination page in Cascade, create an internal link. For example, www.wm.edu editors should use internal links for pages on www.wm.edu, while mason.wm.edu editors should use internal links for pages on mason.wm.edu. Any destination outside your Cascade site is an external link.
  • Use internal links whenever possible. Internal links automatically update if a page is moved or renamed, helping prevent broken links and making your site easier to maintain.
• For external links, type or paste the full URL (beginning with "http://") in the Link Source field.

Publishing

Manual Publishing

Update your content and make it live.

• If you only edited a page or file, you just need to publish that item.
• Publish the folder whenever you create, edit, rename or delete one to ensure menu changes update correctly across all parent, child and sibling pages.

Tip: Cascade allows you to schedule publish jobs for non-time sensitive edits.

Automated Weekly Refresh

Each night a scheduled job publishes a set of our websites to help keep our internal relationships and borrowed page content up to date. All websites are published in this manner once each week.