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Website / CMS

Build the tenant's themed public site from bilingual blocks, and push approved content out from across the platform — drafts stay private until you publish.

Public-facingEssentials tierBilingual EN / ES

Two halves of the same job: a block-based page builder for the public website, and a publish-to-website workflow that routes news and announcements from other modules through approval before they go live. Both are bilingual, and both keep drafts private until staff choose to publish.

What you can do

Pages

Build pages from blocks

Create bilingual public pages with a block builder; legacy single-body pages keep a title/body editor and can convert to blocks when you're ready.

Theme & nav

Theme, navigation & layout

A Theme studio, a Navigation builder, Global blocks, and a Portal builder let you shape look, menus, and reusable content across the site.

Media

Manage media & SEO

Upload and reuse images in the media library, set per-page meta title/description, and a share/OG image for social — in both languages.

Publish

Preview, publish, view live

Preview a draft with the real public renderer before it's seen, then publish (or unpublish) and jump straight to the live page.

Workflow

Approval before it goes out

Publish items move Draft → Submitted → Approved → Published (and can be Unpublished or Expired), so content is reviewed before the public sees it.

Channels

Sync from other modules

Channels map a source module and a target page, so news and announcements from across the platform publish to the right place on the site.

A typical workflow

  1. Build the page — create a new bilingual page and assemble it from blocks, with media and SEO set in both languages.
  2. Preview privately — view the draft with the public renderer; it stays private until you publish.
  3. Publish it — one click takes it live; you can view the live page or unpublish later.
  4. Route module content — a publish item (e.g. a road-closure notice) is created on a channel and submitted for approval.
  5. Approve & publish — staff approve, then publish the item to its target public page; expired items drop off automatically.

A closer look

In practice
The public website and the staff dashboard are one system. A clerk drafts the "Office closed for the holiday" page bilingually, previews it exactly as residents will see it, and publishes — no web developer in the loop. Meanwhile a road-closure announcement raised in another module flows through the publish workflow, gets a supervisor's approval, and lands on the news page in both languages.
Where it lives
Staff: /dashboard/pages (the builder, with Theme, Navigation, Global blocks, Media, and Portal builder) and /dashboard/publish (the approval workflow and channels).

Works with

Records for published public documents · Careers for job postings on the site · Meetings & Agendas for agendas and notices.

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