Publishing Power! Enonic Content Studio Cheat Sheet
Here is a neat and tidy overview of the most useful tips and tricks to excel at Content Studio, the content authoring tool on the Enonic platform.
Written by Vegard Ottervig on
Content Studio is the ultimate CMS interface for the Enonic platform. A small selection of the advantages you get with this powerful tool includes:
- AI tools like content operator and content translator
- User-friendly interface
- Responsive design
- Tree navigation
- Advanced image handling
- Visual page editor
- Familiar keyboard shortcuts
- Granular user and permissions management
- URL handling
- Interactive previewing
- Custom content types
To get you quickly up to speed in Content Studio, we have compiled a handy cheat sheet for your convenience.
Use this as a quick reference guide whenever you need it!
Content Navigator
User Interface
Function | Description |
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Toolbar | Issues, XP menu, search, actions (new, edit, archive, duplicate, move, sort), preview, publish, widget panel. |
Grid | Navigation, overview, actions (new, edit, delete, duplicate, move, sort, preview, publish). Also known as content tree. |
Preview | Interactive preview of content. |
Create Content
Create Content Wizard
Function | Description |
Content type | List of all available content types. |
Suggested | The content types most often used under the content item. |
Media | Upload any type of file. |
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Publish Wizard
Function | Description | Image |
Access publishing wizard in Content navigator | Toolbar → Publish, Ctrl + Alt + P, Context menu → Publish | 
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Publish now | Publishes content item and selected child items | 
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Scheduled publishing | Publishes content with start date and eventual end date |
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Include child items | Toggle to include all child items |  |
Workflow Statuses
Status | Description | Image |
Not validated | Content in draft mode, missing info in required fields, cannot be published. |
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In progress | Content in draft mode, info in required fields, cannot be published. |
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Ready for publishing | Content ready to be reviewed and published. |
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Publish request | Request reviewing and publishing from another user. |
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Online | All content items that are published and visible for visitors. |
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| Offline | All content items that have not been published or have been unpublished, not visible for visitors. |
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| Scheduled | Content item in draft mode, set to be published in the future. |
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| Expired | Content item that has been automatically unpublished due to scheduling. |
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| New | Workflow status given to all new invalid or draft content items. Seen in the context panel. |
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Unpublished | Content manually taken offline. Seen in the context panel. |
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Moved | A content item moved to a new path, also in draft mode. Seen in the context panel. |
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| Modified | A published content item which has been modified, new additions invisible to readers until published. Seen in the context panel. |
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Preview Panel
Function | Description | Button |
Status | Quick overview of content status. |
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| Emulator | Lets you preview content item in different sizes and dimensions. |
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| Preview mode | Choose the preview method, including Enonic rendering and JSON. |
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| Preview | Opens a fullscreen preview in a new tab. In actions toolbar. |
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| Refresh | Reloads current content. |
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Widgets
Content Editor
User Interface
What | Function |
Toolbar | Save, archive, duplicate, preview, publish. Toggle component view, page editor, inspect panel. |
Form Panel | Fields for structured content. Standard: Title, URL, menu. |
Page Editor | Preview, page customization (editing, drag and drop) |
Context Panel | Insert components, assign page template, see widgets |
Components
Function | Description | Button |
Part | Insert advanced component, e.g. button, text, articles list, banner, slider | |
Layout | Insert layout, e.g. 2 columns, 3 columns, or more complex | |
Fragment | Insert reusable component, e.g. complex layout with image, text, and parts |
Page Component Tree
In the form panel. See and edit schematic view of all components.
Search
Function | Description |
Search Field | Fuzzy search, instant results |
Content Types | Filter by content types |
| Workflow | Filter by work in progress |
Last Modified | Filter by week, day, hour |
| Last Modified By | Filter by content last modified by a specific author |
| Owner | Filter by content owner |
| Language | Filter by language |
Image Editor
What | Function | Image |
DisplayName | Works as alt-text by default |
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Crop | Crop image with slider and dragging, non-destructive |
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Autofocus | Set focal point, always to be in focus regardless of aspect ratio |
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Rotate | Rotate image clockwise |
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Flip | Flip image horizontally |
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Caption | Provides captions to image if enabled on your site | |
Alternative Text | Overrides DisplayName as alt-text |
Keyboard Shortcuts
Content Navigator
Action | Mac OS X | Windows / Linux |
New content | Alt + N | |
Select / Unselect content | Space | |
Edit selected content | ⌘ + E / Enter | Ctrl + E / Enter |
Delete selected content | ⌘ + Delete | Ctrl + Delete |
| Move selected content | Alt + M | |
Publish selected content | ⌘ + Alt + P | Ctrl + Alt + P |
Preview selected content | Alt + Space | Ctrl + Alt + Space |
| Open search panel | Shift + F | |
Content Editor
Action | Mac OS X | Windows / Linux |
Save content | ⌘ + S | Ctrl + S |
Save content and close wizard tab | ⌘ + Enter | Ctrl + Enter |
Close wizard tab | Alt + W | |
Delete content | ⌘ + Delete | Ctrl + Delete |
Publish selected content | ⌘ + Alt + P | Ctrl + Alt + P |
Preview selected content | Alt + Space | Ctrl + Alt + Space |
Rich Text Editor
Action | Mac OS X | Windows / Linux |
Cut | ⌘ + X | Ctrl + X |
Copy | ⌘ + C | Ctrl + C |
Paste | ⌘ + V | Ctrl + V |
Paste as text | ⌘ + Shift + V | Ctrl + Shift + V |
Select All | ⌘ + A | Ctrl + A |
Bold | ⌘ + B | Ctrl + B |
Italic | ⌘ + I | Ctrl + I |
Underline | ⌘ + U | Ctrl + U |
H1 | ⌘ + Alt + 1 | Ctrl + Alt + 1 |
H2 | ⌘ + Alt + 2 | Ctrl + Alt + 2 |
H3 | ⌘ + Alt + 3 | Ctrl + Alt + 3 |
H4 | ⌘ + Alt + 4 | Ctrl + Alt + 4 |
H5 | ⌘ + Alt + 5 | Ctrl + Alt + 5 |
H6 | ⌘ + Alt + 6 | Ctrl + Alt + 6 |
Paragraph | ⌘ + Shift + 7 | Ctrl + Shift + 7 |
Div (Normal) | ⌘ + Shift + 8 | Ctrl + Shift + 8 |
Address | ⌘ + Shift + 9 | Ctrl + Shift + 9 |
Undo | ⌘ + Z | Ctrl + Z |
Redo | ⌘ + Y / ⌘ + Shift + Z | Ctrl + Y / Ctrl + Shift + Z |
Insert link | ⌘ + K | Ctrl + K |
Insert image | ⌘ + L | Ctrl + L |
Find | ⌘ + F | Ctrl + F |
| Replace | ⌘ + R | Ctrl + R |
| Insert non-breaking space | Ctrl + Shift + Space | |
Focus to toolbar | Alt + F10 | |
Focus to element | Alt + F11 | |
First published 24 June 2020, updated 2 September 2026.
