Info dialog

Ressources in OpenCms, as a file on the real file system, have various attributes. The info dialog provides access to these informations and also displays where a resource is linked from and where it links to.

Opening the dialog

The info dialog can be opened from various places:

The page editor: Press the info icon () on the left-hand side of the toolbar or the "Info" item in the context menu exposed via the editor toolbar to get the information on the container page.
The sitemap editor: Press "Info" in the context menu of the sitemap or the single pages. Be aware that you get information of folder in the default sitemap editor view.
The explorer app: Right-click on a resource and choose "Info" to open the dialog.
The gallery dialog: Press "Info" in the context mehu of the resource, you want to show the info dialog for.

The dialog

The "Info" dialog allows you to view various information of a resource. The dialog has the following tabs:

The "Links to resource" tab shows all resources linking to the resource the information is shown for.
The "Attributes" tab shows various attributes of the resource, we explain them below.
The "Links from resource" tab show all resources the current resource references.

For container pages the dialog looks slightly different. It has the following tabs:

The "Used elements" tab shows all contents on the page.
The "Attributes" tab shows various attributes of the resource, we explain them below.
The "Links to page" tab shows all resources linking to the page.

Information on linked resources

It is sometimes necessary to navigate through resources, e.g., to track the contents on a page that changed, or to find out where an image is used and navigate to that place.

The dialog allows to open the context menu for the current resource and all the linked resources via the context menu icon () on the right-hand side of each resource. It shows which resources have unpublished changes. These are marked by a red dot in the upper right corner of the resource icon. Thus you get easy access to multiple connected resources.

Resource attributes

The attributes provide you with information on:

Who has edited a resource when?
Who has created a resource when?
What's the size of a file or of all the files in a folder?
Who locks the file?
What is a permanent link to that resource?

This is mostly interesting to administrators. Moreover, some of the attributes, as the ids, allow for debugging, advanced analysis and automatic substitutions for very advanced users.

Resource attributes overview

Navigation: The navigation text that will be displayed for the resource. This is only relevant for resources in a navigation.
Title: The title property of the resource.
Type: The resource type. Here the technical name of the type is shown. It can be relevant for administrators.
Size: For files, the size of the file is displayed. For folders (since OpenCms 20), the size of all files in folder is shown.
State: The resource state can be new (not published at all), changed (differing from the online version), unchanged (online and offline version are identical) or deleted (the resource is deleted, but deletion is not published).
Date created: The date, the resource was created.
Created by: The name of the user that created the resource.
Date last modified: The last modification date of the resource. This is when the resource was last edited, not when it was last published.
Last modified by: The name of the user that did the last modification on the resource.
Lock state: Tells if the resource is unlocked, or which user locked it in which project. This information can be helpful for administrators.
Permissions: Shows the permissions you have for the resource.
Locales: The locales in which the content is present.
Permalink: A link to the resource that will not change, even if the resource is moved.
Structure id: The (internal) id to the structure part of the resource. It can be helpful to debug database issues and can be ignored by administrators and editors.
Resource id: The (internal) id to the resource part of the resource. This is mainly relevant for database debugging and can be ignored by administrators and editors.