USER GUIDE
Inserting Components
Components are professionally designed building blocks — like a row of photo buttons or a band of quick-link medallions — that you can drop right into the middle of any page. The design is already done for you; you just pick where it goes and what it links to.
Before you begin
Components are created and published by your site's Design Manager (or by EvoGov). If the component list is empty when you open it, nothing is wrong — it just means no components have been published for your site yet. Ask your designer for the look you need, and it will appear in the list automatically once published.
Most components are built from a menu: each top-level menu item becomes one button or card. If you want a component to show specific links, set up that menu first — see the Menus guide. A site can have several versions of the same kind of component — for example, differently styled button rows for different departments — each with its own name, so pick the one made for your section of the site.
You insert components from the Page Editor, so this works anywhere the editor appears — Pages, News, FAQs, and Events.
You will place a finished, site-matched design into your page content in three clicks, preview it right inside the editor, and be able to swap what it links to at any time.
1 Insert a component
Open your page for editing (Left menu › Pages, then the Content tab) and click in the content where the component should go. On the editor toolbar, click the blue INSERT COMPONENT button — it sits right next to INSERT FROM MEDIA LIBRARY.
A panel opens listing every component published for your site, each with a name, a type tag, and a short description. Click the one you want.
2 Pick what it links to
If the component is built from a menu, the panel asks you to choose a Menu. Pick the menu whose items should become the buttons or cards. Then click Insert.
The component appears in your content as a block with a small header bar and a live preview of exactly how it will look on your page — same photos, same colors, same layout.
3 Save the page
Save your page as usual. On the public page, the component appears where you placed it. If you edit the menu later — add an item, rename one, change a photo — the component updates automatically; there is nothing to re-insert.
4 Change or remove a placed component
Every placed component has a Change... button in its header bar. Click it to reopen the panel — you can switch to a different component or point it at a different menu, and the preview updates in place.
To remove a component, click it once to select it (it gets a blue outline) and press Delete on your keyboard. You can also drag a selected component to move it elsewhere in the content.
How components stay up to date
The design of a component lives with your Design Manager, not in your page. When the designer updates and republishes a component, every page that uses it picks up the new look automatically — usually within a minute. That is the point: one design change, updated everywhere, and nobody can accidentally break the styling from inside a page.
Next steps
- Set up the menu behind your component in the Menus guide — menu item photos and icons are what the buttons display.
- Look up any other toolbar button in the Page Editor guide.
- Return to the Pages guide for URLs, publishing, and the full page workflow.