The content owner created your project. Now it is time
to add your changes and updates to the project. Projects are used
when you have more than one update to organize these changes for easy
publishing at a later point in the project.
Procedure
- Click Create in the site toolbar
to add content, such as pages, applications, and other social content
to your project.
- Page
- Create a page from a template. Page templates provide you a starting
point for your page. For example, if you create a page from the Articles
template, a sample article and a list of articles are automatically
added to your new page.
- After you select a page template, you can name your page, determine
where to insert your page, provide a unique page name, and provide
information for other settings.
- Applications
- Add applications to your projects that range from administration,
collaboration, web content, and tools.
- Content
- Add blogs, wikis, and social content to your project.
- Click Page to change the layout
of pages in your project, styles, page properties, and more.
Results
As you add pages and other content, click Projects at
any point to get a quick view of the content added to the project
and to edit content. When you edit a content item, you can click Preview to
see your edits in context of the site. Other content authors can edit
and collaborate on content in this project.
You might want
to add content to your project that exists in a library on the site.
To add content to a project from an existing library, click from the Projects tab.
Example
- Example: Adding a new page from a page template to the project
- You want to create a new page to add to the Fall Conference project.
- From the site toolbar, you click Projects.
You see the Fall Conference project that is listed in the Recent Projects
view. You click Fall Conference to enter the
project.
- You plan to work with experts that are attending the conference
on an article about new technologies. You want the article to appear
on the page that you create for this project. You click Create from
the site toolbar to add a page to your project. You select the Articles
template as a starting point for your page. This template already
contains a place holder article and a view to display a list of the
articles that are created on the page. You name your page, give your
page a friendly URL name, and decide where you want your page to be
placed within the context of where you are currently working. You
click Create Page.
- You see other options for your page. You decide to change the
layout of your page to three columns. You plan to use the third column
on the page for promotions.
- You click Projects, and see the Sample
Article that was automatically included by the Articles template added
to the Fall Conference project. You click the Sample Article and change
the name of the article to New Technologies.
- Example: Adding existing content from a library to the project
- You want to add an article to the Fall Conference about new technologies. The article exists
in a library on your site.
- From the site toolbar, you click Projects.
You see the Fall Conference project that is listed in the Recent Projects
view. You click Fall Conference to enter the
project.
- To find the new technologies article, click .
- From the library, click .
- Click Finish. You see the new technologies article
that is listed in the Contents area of Projects Overview.