Dialogs are temporary windows that display additional information and provide options related to content of the page, without having to leave the current page. They ask for user input to complete the options.
The dialogs that are available depend on the current page – look at the help article to see which dialogs are available. See a complete list of dialogs available in PageSeeder.
You can close a dialog by clicking the
Dialogs usually open on top of the current page contents, with the page contents greyed out.
If you need to interact with the page contents while also keeping the dialog open, clicking the arrow icon in the top-right of a dialog moves it to the right side and then page contents and scroll bar are available.
Click the button on the bottom-left corner of the dialog to proceed with the main action. The name of the button changes depending on the purpose of the dialog.
The button might be greyed out until the form in the dialog is completed without errors.
Clicking the action often also closes the dialog. Some dialogs might have multiple action buttons.
Click the button on the bottom-right corner of the dialog to cancel the action and close the dialog.
This button always closes the dialog, but it might have a different name depending on the purpose of the dialog. Look at the documentation for the specific dialog for additional information.
These don’t have a dedicated article in the help, as the options are always the same.
This dialog displays a message to alert you of some event or give you some information where no action is required. There is only an OK button at the bottom to close the dialog.
A confirmation dialog checks with you whether to proceed with an action, for example, deleting a document.
In some cases, for example, when the action is particularly destructive or difficult to recover from, the confirmation dialog doesn’t enable the button until you type some specific text.
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