Sitecore: Add to here button not showing on placeholder

Question

I've been working through Martina Welander's SitecoreMVC tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Mwcphtz4w ) and run into an issue when I try to add new placeholders.

When my placeholder is called "content" the Page Editor shows a nice clickable block with the Add to here heading. But if I change the name to anything else the block disappears.

At first I thought it might be because I hadn't set up any placeholder settings for that key, but even after doing that the Page Editor doesn't show the placeholder zone.

Clearly there's a basic step I'm missing somewhere to add the key to a list or something?

Answer 1

Check that you have a placeholder settings item with the same name, and that the settings item has 'Editable' selected.

Also, in Page Editor, check that you have 'Designing' enabled, under the 'View->Enable' menu.