User assistance for content authors

Adding content to your project

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.

About this task

Procedure

  1. 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.
  2. 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 More > Add to Project 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 More > Add to Project.
  • From the library, click Content > Articles > New Technologies.
  • Click Finish. You see the new technologies article that is listed in the Contents area of Projects Overview.

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