The Publish button on the top panel displays a confirmation dialog that lets you publish the current working copy or open the changes list for optionally reviewing the changes made to it. If you aren’t permitted to publish the working copy, either the “Request publish” button or no such button is available here.

The view mode switch lets you preview a page, activate in-place editing, or view the changes made to the page. The switches are toggles. Only one of them can be activated at a time.
Preview lets you look at a page with the eyes of a website visitor. However, the Scrivito panel remains visible.
Edit puts the website in editing mode. Click an element to change its contents. You can use the context menu of the browser to open links in a new tab.
Changes lets you view the changes made to the page compared to its most recently published version.

The top menu offers items that refer to the current page as a whole, e.g. for editing its properties (depending on the mode), or for duplicating or deleting it. See Creating, Copying, and Moving Pages for details. Additionally, the menu includes more general items such as “Open dashboard”. The menu can be customized, so further or less items may be present.

The search panel lets you instantly find non-binary content in the CMS, i.e., first and foremost, pages containing the search term. The search results list is updated as you type, and every result includes the page type as well as the date the page was last changed.

The Hierarchy Browser lets you browse your website along the hierarchy formed by the pages and subpages of your site. Click an item to open the corresponding page. Using an item’s menu to the right, you can create a subpage, open the properties of the page, or delete it.

This button opens the Content Browser for inspecting and managing all CMS content, especially resources such as images and other binary data.

Click this button to open the widget sidebar panel to select a pre-built widget or one from the Widget Library and drag/drop it onto the page. At the top, this panel has a search input field for finding widgets by their name.

The language versions sidebar supports you with maintaining multi-language content on multiple sites. It lets you link sites and pages together as versions of each other, add pages as language versions, and conveniently switch between them.

The page properties button opens the sidebar panel for editing the properties of the current page, similar to the corresponding main menu item that lets you open the page properties dialog.

If there are warning messages or hints related to the current page, this sidebar button opens the notifications section that lets you view them. Click a notification to view its details or fix its cause.

Sidebar button for opening the working copies panel. It lets you select a working copy and, depending on your permissions, publish the current one, create a new one or rename or delete the current working copy, open the current working copy’s list of changed content, and manage its collaborators.

If the published content is selected, this button opens the history panel containing the publishing history (“All content”) and lets you compare the current page with a previously published version (“This page”).

Use this button to select one of several common screen sizes, e.g. of smartphones, to preview your pages.

This hides the Scrivito panel and the sidebar, giving you more space for editing content. To unhide the controls, click the little flap that appears at the top edge of the browser window.