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Pages display

Cells Pages let you publish internal HTML pages — landing pages, knowledge base articles, team announcements — directly from inside Cells. They live alongside files, share the same access control, and are visible to the users you grant access to.

Cells v5 introduces a redesigned Pages display with a richer authoring experience and a cleaner browsing layout.

What's new in v5

  • Default namespaces installed on first run. A first-time install (or v4 → v5 upgrade) automatically registers the Pages namespaces, so the feature is available without manual configuration. If a previous installation removed them, they are re-created on the next start.
  • Modernized browsing layout. The Pages display has been refactored to make navigation between pages and sections feel as natural as browsing files.
  • Editor with Table-of-Contents hints. The page editor now surfaces a Table of Contents hint when a page is long enough to benefit from one, making it easier to keep internal articles well-structured.
  • Cleaner integration with the rest of the interface. Pages appear in the standard navigation and inherit the same workspace/security model — there is no separate access path to learn.

Enabling Pages

Pages are enabled by default. To control which users see them:

  1. Open the Application Pages menu under admin delegation (see Admin delegation).
  2. Choose the workspaces or roles that should have access to the Pages workspace.
  3. Optionally adjust the Pages namespaces from the Metadata panel — Pages relies on the same namespace mechanism as regular metadata, so you can extend it with custom fields.

Authoring

The editor is reachable from any workspace — click New page to open it.

  • Pages are written in the standard rich-text editor; advanced users can insert raw HTML where needed.
  • Long pages display a Table-of-Contents hint at the top — accept it to insert an auto-generated TOC.
  • Drafts are saved automatically on focus changes, the same way other Cells forms behave in v5.

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