1. Display Name
Display Names are how assets will appear listed in your files inside the Cascade interface. Other users who log in can see the all the assets by their Display Names in the Site Contents.
It's helpful to think of Display Names as "internal names" to refer to assets by. These are generally not viewable by visitors to your site when it is live.
Additionally, Display Names may include capital letters and/or special characters.
NOTE: It is possible to have a Display Name without a Title. This is useful when a page is still under construction and you don't want it appearing on navigation menus. Or if you want assets displayed on your File Manager not by their file names, but by custom names that include special characters and/or spaces.
2. Title
This what visitors to your site will see. It is the Title of your page, in terms of web-browsing.
The Title appears in a browser's title bar when browsing the page:
and serves as the page's name (title) in breadcrumbs, and navigation menus:
NOTE: Because of this, one can remove a page or an asset from navigation menus simply by deleting its Title. For ellaboration, consult the webinar: The Top Menu on Auto!
3. File Name
This is a digital file's actual name –the first (and only) naming requirement when creating or uploading an asset. You will see this prompt upon adding a new page, a new folder, or uploading a new file:
Upon naming a folder:
Upon naming a page:
A file's name is in fact part of the web address generated to lead users to that file. For this reason, best-practice naming conventions are such that only lowercase characters and no spaces are allowed when assigning an asset's name
A page's name is the last part of its URL
🚨 IMPORTANT: It is strongly recommended NOT to change the name of your files (and folders) after being published.
INSTEAD, change the file's Title and/or Display Name metadata!
This is especially the case for folders and pages, as they are used in the paths of web addreses, and thus essential in keeping URLs consistent and crucial files accessible. Files' names are, in fact, part of the URL (web address) used to lead users to them.
For instance, if you were to share a web address leading to a specific page and then later rename the page, the web address to the page will also change! The old link you shared will be broken, as it no longer leads to the new name you gave the page.
Now, with that important caveat said...
there are two ways to rename your files:
• You can Edit your asset, then go to More > Rename
• Or, in the file manager, right-click on your chosen file, then scroll down to Rename
