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Edit from the storefront as a manager

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Audience: store admins · Scope: in-context editing from the storefront · Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

What this does — When you're signed into your site as a store manager, the storefront configurator gains inline edit controls. You can adjust a question or answer while looking at the live product — the exact thing the customer sees — instead of guessing from the back-office form.

Before you start​

  • Be logged into your site with a manager/administrator account (the same account you use for the CBX back office).

  • Open the product on the storefront and start configuring it:

    The Shirt Configurator on the storefront

Steps​

  1. Hover a question or answer. As a logged-in manager you get an inline edit control on it that a normal shopper never sees.
  2. Click it. The matching back-office edit form opens in context — the same question or answer form you'd reach from Products, but launched from where you were looking.
  3. Change the label, price, ordering or rule, and Save.
  4. Reload the storefront page to see the change live, and keep going.

What happens next​

Your edit is a normal back-office change — it takes effect for every customer immediately. The inline controls are only ever shown to signed-in managers; shoppers see the clean configurator.

Good to know​

  • This is the "build a little, then look at the storefront" loop from how a product fits together — it just saves the round trip back to the admin tree for small tweaks.
  • The forms you reach this way are the same ones documented in add pages and questions and add answers; the fields and rules behave identically.
  • For structural work — adding pages, reordering the tree, bulk changes — the back-office Products screens are still the better place; inline editing shines for quick, in-place fixes.
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