[SOLVED] Submitted content not showing

[bmd6789]

I have just taken over updating the company website, and I have never used CMS Made Simple before. We are running 1.115 “Puerto Ayora.” I am trying to update an area under Global Content Blocks, once I go through and update the block and then hit submit nothing changes. The spot where the information is supposed to be on the web page still remains blank. Before I attempted to update the information the specific web page was blank yet once I logged on there was still content in the content box. So I am wondering if there is an option somewhere that may have been selected that hides the page contents (or something to that affect). So in short my question is why would the content in the content box not be showing up on the web page after I hit submit? I am very new to this, so any help is appreciated!
Thank you!

[Dr.CSS]

You have to make sure that content block is in the page Content block or in the template used on that page, make sure the part you want to edit is not in the page itself, most times GCB are used for stuff that is in most every page but not changed, like the footer...

[bmd6789]

Thank you for your response. Once I looked at the content page as you suggested I discovered the edited content is actually supposed to be visible on two different pages not just one. The edited GCB content is showing up on one page but not the other, yet both appear to be linked to the same template under pages.

[paulbaker]

Yeah, like Dr.CSS implies it sounds like you're not actually changing the bit you think you are.

Look in Layout -> Templates and click the template your site uses. Look for text like

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{global_content name='Footer'}

which shows where CMSMS will insert global content blocks - in this case the one named Footer. Those are the ones you should be editing.

[bmd6789]

Thank you for your responses, I figured it out.

[Dr.CSS]

Well, don't leave us hanging, what was it..?

[bmd6789]

The page I was editing is accessible from two different routes (so basically there is actually two pages for the same thing, it just depends on the route you take to access it). For some reason it is set up so that you have to edit the data twice (once for one page and once for the other) and one page is edited under GCB and the other can be edited under pages.The content is however exactly the same. I am not sure why this is the case, but I am looking into making it so my changes are visible on both pages and I do not have to edit under GCB and 'pages' separately. So when I was updating GCB and nothing was showing up I actually need to update under pages. Thanks again!