Moving/renaming assets

Applicable to: all assets | Skill level: advanced

Goal: Move an asset within your site, and/or change its name.

PLEASE NOTE: You should not move or rename files [file icon], pages [page icon] or folders [folder icon].
Please contact the help team at cascadehelp@ucop.edu to perform these actions for you.

Moving or renaming an asset within Cascade does not automatically cause a corresponding change on the web server(s) to which it has been published. Assets that are moved or renamed must also be un-published from the remote server(s), and then re-published at their new name/location, to avoid 1) orphaning them and 2) having different versions of the same asset in multiple locations on the web.

You most likely do not have the ability to un-publish from the production server. So, moving or renaming an asset, even though you un-publish from dev, will leave it on the production server with no way to then un-publish it, leading to multiple, possibly erroneous versions of the asset being online. Though you might not see the asset on your website, it will still be findable by a search engine or anyone who has bookmarked the old URL

Assets you can move or rename

  • blocks [block icon]
         (but check Relationships to make sure the block isn't being used on other pages)
  • references [reference icon]. 

Assets you CANNOT move or rename

  •  pages [page icon] 
  •  files [file icon]
  • folders [folder icon]

If you need to move or rename a page, file or folder, contact cascadehelp@ucop.edu to request that it be deleted.

If you need to move or rename, a block or reference:

Steps to change the name of an asset

  1. Navigate within Cascade to the block or reference you want to rename, go to ...More, and select Rename.

    Go to more, then rename

  2. Provide a new Asset Name. Be sure to follow proper naming conventions, and to provide a file extension.

    Note: To change an asset's Display Name or Title, you'll need to select Edit and make changes there.

    give asset a new system name

  3. Rename.

  4. Go to ...More, then select Relationships to determine which assets link to this block and should be re-published.

Steps to move a file to a different folder

  1. Navigate within Cascade to the block or reference you want to move, go to ...More, and select Move.

  2. Under New Folder, browse to the new folder in which you want this asset to live.

    move an asset to a new folder

  3. Move.

  4. Go to ...More, then select Relationships to determine which assets link to this block and should be re-published.