Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 2 ■ Creating and Managing Content
A pop-up window will appear in which you can update the text without leaving the homepage
(see Figure 2-8). Make changes to the text in the editor and click the Save button. The new version
automatically appears on the homepage after you’ve saved it. This is a great way of performing quick text
touch-ups or fixing errors that you’ve spotted.
Figure 2-8. On-page content editor
If you are making several changes and prefer the full-screen editor interface, click the pencil icon (see
Figure 2-7) and select the Edit option. This is the same as clicking the title of any content item to view the
content detail page (the full rendering of that content item as a stand-alone page) and selecting the Edit tab
below the title of the content, as we did previously.
Other Content Options
In the right column of the content editing form (see Figure 2-6), we modified one of the items—Promotion
Options—before we saved our new content item. Let’s look at this and the other options associated with a
content item before moving on to more advanced content topics.
Click the Edit tab next to the title of the content item you just updated and examine the items in the
right column:
• “Create new revision” check box
• Menu Settings link
• Comment Settings link
• URL Path Settings link
• Authoring Information link
• Promotion Options link
The options associated with each of these items are described in turn in the sections that follow.
Revision Information
Have you ever made a change to a document, saved those changes, and then realized that you made a
mistake and need to “undo” the changes you made? Have you ever realized this after closing Microsoft Word,
when it’s too late to revert to the document in its pre-changed state?
There will come a time when you or someone else makes changes to a content item, and you’ll wish you
had a copy of the content before it was changed. Drupal solves this problem by providing the ability to create
a new version (copy) of your content when that content item is changed. Edit the sample article you created
in previous steps and check the “Create new revision” check box in the right column. Enter a description of
the changes that you made (see Figure 2-9) in the “Revision log message” field.
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