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Managing Web Pages
As a team site owner with the default SharePoint Designer access configuration, you can
manage files on a per-file basis only in the Site Pages and Site Assets libraries. These are
the two main libraries you use when you develop SharePoint solutions. The Site Pages library
contains your content pages, and the Site Assets library contains other files, such as
images, cascading style sheets, XML files, and JavaScript files. As a site collection owner,
by using the All Files option in the Navigation pane, you can access all files in all libraries.
On publishing sites, publishing pages are stored in the Pages library and not in the Site
Pages library. By default, a publishing site does not contain a Site Pages or Site Assets
library. However, if you open a publishing site with SharePoint Designer, both these libraries
are created.
When you click a file on the Site Pages or Site Assets gallery page, the files settings page
is displayed, which is divided into four areas:
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File Information Provides key information about the file, such as file name, created
by, last modified by, file version, check in/check out status, and whether the file is
based on a file from the site definiton or has been customized.
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Customization Use to edit the file or manage the file properties in the browser.
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Permissions Use to manage the permission settings for the file. By default, the
file inherits its permissions from the list it is stored in, and the list commonly inherits
its permissions from the site. As with the site settings page, you can use the
Permissions area on the file settings page to stop inheriting permissions, thereby
creating unique permissions for the file. Then you can add or remove users or
SharePoint groups and configure the access rights of those users and groups to the
file by using permission levels.
Version History Use to restore and delete versions of a file. The version numbers
are hyperlinks that open the File Version Summary dialog box. Both the Site Pages
and the Pages libraries are configured with versioning enabled. The Site Pages
document library uses major versions.
Note The Pages library is configured to use major and minor (draft) versions with
content approval because publishing sites are usually used as Internet sites or company
portal intranet sites that need a business-approval mechanism.
See Also Managing publishing pages is detailed in Chapter 13.