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 for the Enonic platform. A small selection of the advantages you get with this powerful tool includes:
- 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
What | Function |
Toolbar | Issues, XP menu, search, actions (new, edit, archive, duplicate, move, sort), preview, publish, widget panel |
Content tree grid | Navigation, overview, actions (new, edit, archive, duplicate, move, sort, preview, publish) |
Preview panel | Interactive preview of content |
Create Content
What | Function | GIF |
Content navigator → Toolbar → New | Opens create content wizard via toolbar |  |
Content navigator → alt+n | Opens create content wizard via keyboard shortcut |  |
Content navigator → Right-click → New | Opens create content wizard via context menu |  |
Create Content Wizard
What | Function |
Content type | List of all available content types. |
Most popular | The content types most often used under the content item. |
Recently used | The content type most recently created under the content item. |
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Publish Wizard
What | Function | 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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Show dependent items | See child items and exclude them from publishing (if possible) | 
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Include child items | Toggle to include all child items | 
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Workflow Statuses
What | Function | 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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Published | Workflow state icon no longer shown, will be put back into progress if modified | 
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| New | Workflow status given to all new invalid or draft content items | 
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Unpublished | Content taken offline | 
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Moved | A content item moved to a new path, also in draft mode | 
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| Modified | A published content item which has been modified, new additions invisible to readers until published | 
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| Moved, modified | The same as above, with the addition of the content item being moved to a new path | 
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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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Preview Panel
What | Function | Image | GIF |
Status | Provides 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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| Open in new tab | Opens a fullscreen preview in a new tab | 
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Widgets
What | Function | Image | GIF |
Context panel | Access widgets in Content navigator and editor | 
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Details | See vital info, including content type, creation date, template | 
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Version history | Browse and revert between different saved versions | 
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Dependencies | See inbound and outbound content items | 
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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) |
Inspect/context panel | Insert components, assign page template, see widgets |
Components
What | Function | Image |
Part | Insert advanced component, e.g. button, articles list, banner, slider |  |
Layout | Insert layout, e.g. 2 columns, 3 columns, or more complex |  |
Text | Insert rich text component |  |
Fragment | Insert reusable component, e.g. complex layout with image, text, and parts |  |
Component View
In the form panel. See and edit schematic view of all components.
Search
What | Function |
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 |
Publish selected content | ⌘ + Alt + P | Ctrl + Alt + P |
Preview selected content | Alt + Space | Ctrl + Alt + Space |
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 (Nornal) | ⌘ + 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 |
Focus to toolbar | Alt + F10 | |
Focus to element | Alt + F11 | |
First published 24 June 2020, updated 10 July 2025.
