On all my sites (as a Site Admin/Manager), I’m not able to access the new Edit Mode. There is no “Edit” option in the dropdown on the top-left of the Designer; I only have “Design” or “Build”. I do not have an “Editing” or “Designing” dropdown options on the top-right of the Designer (as shown in the WebFlow Tutorials).
If I give myself a “Content Editor” role in Site Settings then I’m able to view in “Edit Mode”
I’m so confused, how do I test if things are working for Edit Mode if I can’t access it as a Site Admin?! Do I have to switch my role back and forth just to test Edit Mode?
I believe you can go to Site settings and you will find a button in the top right side as “Editor” which you can click to go to the Edit view for the site accordingly. Hope this helps.
I’ve just raised this question with some of my dev friends in Webflow.
First, you’re probably looking at old videos, that mode control is now top left.
Yes it’s a bit odd to me that the Site manager and Designer roles can only see Build mode, and not Edit mode. I think the idea is that Build mode does everything edit mode does, plus offers the page building functionality.
Here you can see Edit mode is distinct, and intentionally hidden from higher level roles.
In general, Build mode should work well for your testing, I think it does everything Edit mode does, plus a bit more. Key differences I notice are in Edit mode there’s no left nav at all. Everything is really done on the canvas, and there would be no “marketer role” features like build a new page from a page template. Simply editing text, links, images…
That said I’d like to see Edit mode accessible to Site managers, so that I can do videos for clients and show them the mode they’ll actually be working with.
Thanks for your thoughts—I agree 100% on all fronts. As you say, would be nice to be able to show clients during training what their experience may be if they are using the Editor. One idea I have is to create a ‘dummy’ Content Editor role on my workspace and log into that as needed—not ideal but one work around I guess!