Editing a WIND Document

Before any creation or modification of WIND Entity, you may wish to get a few basic facts on how documents are handled in the WIND interface.

The WIND Entities

A WIND document is also referred to as an entity - this is how it will be named in the different menus.

Entity status

Visual clues let you know the current status of an entity:

A color code indicates the status:

Labels are set to Green when they are being edited by yourself, within the active view in which you are currently making changes.
They are set to Orange when edited by yourself - within any view other than the currently active one (and identified between parenthesis). You will need to return to this view in which the changes took place to resume your work.
Labels are finally set to Red to indicate that the entity is being edited by someone else (identified between parenthesis).

Note: The last updated date and time indicated next to an entity status may be misleading - they firstly reflect the date and time of the last migration (internal procedure reserved to system administrators) and then, when relevant, the date and time of a content update (if posterior to the last migration).

View Entity

The Open entity command allows you to access the content in read-only mode:

Edit Content

Use the Lock entity in a new view and open command to create a new view while having the selected entity locked and editable:

A new view is created on the fly, and the entity is ready for changes:

When you plan to have the changes linked to the current view (MyFirstSavedView in this example), simply use the Lock entity command

In both cases, you may now edit the document - see the Editing Tools and Components chapter for further details.

Save Changes

The WIND Editor provides two methods to persist the changes made to a document: the Save and Save and close buttons located at the top left of editor:

The Save button will save the changes made to the document being edited - the Save and close button does the same, and in addition closes the entity.

These changes are stored in a temporary location, and linked to the profile and view used to generate them. They can be retrieved at any time during the same or another session, changed again, deleted ... or of course published on the live server.

Should you close the Edit window with yet unsaved changes, you will be prompted to either proceed and lose the corrections, or go back and save them :

The warning about unsaved work does NOT appear when you close the main WIND window. Remember to save your work, a there is no way to recover lost data.