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When adding content from your analytics environments, Curator will automatically create default template pages for you. These can be accessed via the edit page of those individual pieces of content. However, you may want to create something more tailored for your users to showcase certain content. In this case, using Curator’s page builder allows a huge amount of flexibility for creating and styling your pages, while still allowing you to link to content that is both secured to the user viewing the page as well as relevant based on their recent browsing activity.

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Building Pages in Curator

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To create a page in Curator

  1. Navigate to the backend of the system (e.g. http://curatorexample.com/backend).
  2. Navigate to the Content > Pages section from the left-hand menu.
  3. Click “New Page” to create a new page.

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To add content to your page

  1. Hover over the element on the page-preview on the right-hand side of the page builder and click the “edit” icon
  2. Choose the content you’d like to add to your page

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To style content to your page

  1. Click on an item on the page-preview on the right-hand side of the page builder.
  2. This will expand a side-panel over the menu on the left-hand side of the page that will give you styling controls related to the active content.

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Adding Alt Text to Images

Alt text describes an image for screen reader users. When a File element shows an image, you can set its alt text for that element:
  1. Click the File element on the page-preview to open its side-panel.
  2. Under File Settings, make sure File type is set to Image. The Alt Text field only appears for images.
  3. Enter a short description of the image in Alt Text, for example the company name for a logo.
  4. Save the page.
Alt Text is optional. When it is left empty, the image uses the Description of the file in Content > Files. Because Alt Text is set on the element, the same image can have different alt text on each page that uses it.

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Creating a Page from an HTML File, URL, or Embed Code

When all a page needs to show is a single piece of embedded content — for example a standalone HTML page generated by an AI tool — Curator can build the page for you:
  1. Navigate to the backend of the system (e.g. http://curatorexample.com/backend).
  2. Navigate to the Content > Pages section from the left-hand menu.
  3. Click the Upload HTML button in the toolbar.
  4. Enter a title for the new page, then choose a source: upload an .html file, link to a URL, or paste embed code.
  5. Optionally enable Add new Page to Navigation to add the new page to the main navigation, and Hide new Page from Search to keep the page out of search results while it stays visible in tiles and the explorer. Both are off by default.
  6. Click Create Page.
The new page contains a single full-width element holding your content, and its title display is turned off so the content takes up the whole page area. Both can be changed later in the page builder, just like any other page. For security, uploaded HTML files are displayed inside a sandboxed frame isolated from the viewer’s Curator session, so scripts inside the file cannot interact with Curator itself. Pages can also be created this way programmatically via the /content/createPage API endpoint.

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Controlling Page Width

Curator gives you two ways to control how wide your page content appears: a global side-margin that applies to every page on the site, and a per-row override that lets individual rows break out to the full width of the browser window. See Controlling Page Width for the full guide.

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Page Security

Pages will first inherit any Restrict Access permission that have been set on the individual menu item. Continuing from there, the permissions will apply according to the sections below.

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Restricting a Page to Groups

A page can restrict access directly in its own settings, without creating a menu link just to hold the restriction:
  1. Navigate to Content > Pages and open the page.
  2. Expand the Page Details section and toggle Restrict Access to ON.
  3. In the User Group Access list that appears, check the groups that should be able to see the page.
  4. Save the page.
Page-level Restrict Access is enforced everywhere the page can be reached: menu links, direct or shared URLs, search results, tiles, keyword pages, and when the page is embedded inside another page. It stacks with any Restrict Access set on the page’s menu links, so a user must satisfy both to see the page. If Restrict Access is on but no groups are selected, nobody can see the page. When Restrict Access is Always Enabled is turned on in Settings > Security > Authentication Settings, every page is treated as restricted and must have at least one group selected before users can see it, the same way menu links behave under that setting. In the backend, menu links pointing at a restricted page show a lock icon on the Reorder Navigation page, and the menu link’s edit form notes that the page restricts access in its own settings with a link back to the page. Page security for embedded-content was added in the 2024.03-02 release, all prior releases have no security applied when loading embedded content for pages. The following section only applies to 2024.03-02 and later. Proceed to the Security for Pages Without Embedded Content section if you are on an earlier version.

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Security for Pages With Embedded Content

When embedding analytic-content into pages, for example a Dashboard, Curator will check permissions on that embedded piece of content. If the user does not have access to the embedded content it will deny them access, routing them to the Access Denied page. This applies to both menu items as well as loading the page directly.

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Disabling Embedded Content Security

To disable the security check in versions released after 2024.03-02:
  1. Navigate to the backend of the system (e.g. http://curatorexample.com/backend).
  2. Click on Settings > Curator > Portal Settings in the left-hand menu.
  3. On the General tab, scroll down to the Security section and expand it.
  4. Toggle the switch Disable Page Element Security Checks to ON and click the “Save” button.

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Security for Pages Without Embedded Content

Content that is linked on a page, for example Tiles, will run through permissions checks while loading the page. check when rendering the tiles. So if a page contains a Tile that links to a Dashboard that a user does not have access to the user will simply not see the tile. However, for pages that have content embedded in them, see the Security for Pages With Embedded Content section above.

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Revision History

Curator keeps the last 500 saved versions of a page’s content and deletes older ones automatically. To see them, open an existing page, scroll to the Revision History field under Page Details, and click Revisions. Each entry shows the version number, when it was saved, who saved it, and a short list of what that save changed. Until a page reaches that limit, the oldest entry is Page created: the page as it was first created, or as it was when Curator started recording revisions for pages created before then. To see an older version, click View next to it. A side pane shows the page as it looked at that version. Close it with the X button or the Escape key. The version the page currently shows has no View button, because the page builder already shows it. The preview is read-only. Embedded dashboards and reports (Tableau, Power BI, and others) in the preview show today’s data and today’s permissions, not what they showed when that version was saved.

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Deleting a Page

To delete a page, including troubleshooting the homepage-block error, see Deleting a Page.