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 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 you 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 - 2 Methods

• Navigate to your content
  • After selecting your server from the Site dropdown, use the Folder Navigation Tree to locate your site's main folder. Click on a page or file to select it. To select a folder, hover over the folder and select the arrow that appears to the right of the folder's name.
• Use your History to return to a recent location
  • 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 & Files

• Remove any spaces and capital letters in your image/file names before uploading them into Cascade.
• Navigate to and select the documents or images storage folder.
• From the top menu bar, choose Add Content >> File (or Image).
• 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 feature 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 desired image file.
• Enter descriptive alt text.
• Select the image alignment from the Styling list.
  • Note: Captions will not appear until your 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.
  • Remember, an internal link is one going to a page you can browse to and view within Cascade. If you're a www.wm.edu user, this means pages in any www.wm.edu folder. If you're a mason.wm.edu user, this means links to pages within mason.wm.edu, and so on. Any other links are considered external.
• For external links, type or paste the full URL (beginning with "http://") in the Link Source field.

Publishing - 2 Methods

• 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.
• 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.