Creating Web Content using the Single Content Viewer

Creating Web Content using the Single Content Viewer

1 Overview

Publishing a content by using SCV (Single Content Viewer), you can create only one web content at one time or you can choose the existing web content to view and public in the Single Content Viewer. To do that, please follow these following steps:

2 Web Content Configuration by Single Content Viewer

1. Go to Single Content Viewer page on the Navigation bar.

2. Click on the icon in this page to create/select a web content for publishing. You will be suggested two options to select:

• Quick web content creation: This option supports you to quickly create a web content. SCV will refer to this new content for publishing.
• Select an existing content: This option supports you to select an existing web content for publishing.

• Quick web content creation:

• Name: the name of the new web content. This field is required.
• Web content layout: The template is used to layout the web content.

3. Click the Save button to accept the inputted values and complete the step 1. Next to Step 2.

Step 2: After completing the step 1, the form to create a new web content at step 2 will appear:

1. Enter values for fields in this form.

In the Main content tab, you can:

• Insert a paragraph, text: Directly type a text into the text box of the Main content field or copy a paragraph from another document and paste it into this text box.
• Insert a link into the site's content: Click the icon on the Editor of the Main content field. The form to insert a link to a site page like:

In addition, click the Setting button in this form to select a view and a sort of links. After that, click the Save button to accept inserting the link.

• Insert an image:

• Click the icon on the Editor of the Main content field. The form to browse all images of sites will appear:

• Select a site on the left pane and select an image on the right pane.
• You also upload an image into a specific site's folder by doing as follows:

2. Browse and select an image on your local computer by clicking the 'Browse...' button.

3. Click the Upload button to perform uploading the selected image. After completing upload an image, the form to enter a name for the uploaded image will appear:

4. Enter a name for the 'Name:' field (optional).

5. Finish uploading an image into a specific folder by clicking the Save button.

• If you want to choose another way to view and sort images in a folder:

2. Then select a view and a sort by checking the radio buttons.

3. Close the Setting form by clicking the Close button.

• Insert a DMS document:

• You can insert a document of sites by selecting a document of a site on the left.
• Or click the Upload button to upload a document from your local location into any site for using.
• Click the Setting button to select the way to view and sort documents in a specific folder.

• Insert a gadget

• Access the Application Registry page by select following path on the Administration bar: Groups --> Application Registry
• Import all gadgets by clicking on the Auto Import button at the upper right corner of this page.
• Back to the form to add a new content at step 2. Then, click on the icon on the Editor. List of gadgets is displayed in the default eXo Gadgets folder.
• Select one gadget in list. The gadget will be added in the content.

• In addition, you also can align, assign format, use numbered list,… to make the site's content more attractive and more animated by using some functions which is supported by Editor.
• The Illustration tab: To upload an image to the web content. This image is used as an illustration of this content when you view it in the Content List Viewer:

• The default.css tab: To present content in the Main Content field. This tab requires you should know little about CSS.

4. Click the Save button to accept inputted values and complete the Step 2. Next to the Step 3

Step 3:

After completing the Step 2, you will be directed to form to add tag for current web content like:

The Permission Setting tab: It supports you to set access and edit permission of the web content to some users. By default, when creating a new web content, all users can access but only 'root' and users of the *:/platform/administrators group can edit the web content. In addition, you also can change these permission by doing as follows: After finishing step 2, you will be directed to the form to set permission.

5. Edit current permission of a group/user in the permission table by clicking the icon corresponding to that group/user. Then change current permission by checking check boxes in edit form below:

6. Or you can add new groups into the permission table:

Select the icon if you want to set permission for users:

Select the icon if you want to set permission for a group: The membership form will appear and then Select a group on the left and then select one corresponding membership on the right.

Select the icon if you want to set permission for all users. After selecting users/groups, set permission for these users/groups by checking the Access Right check box (for only access right) or the Edit Right check box (for only edit right) or checking both check boxes if you want.

7. Accept and save the permission by clicking the Save button.

8. After set permission, click the Finish button at the right bottom to complete creating a new web content. This step is also to add tag and category for a new web content. This action is not required so that you can skip this step by clicking the Finish button to complete creating a new web content for publication. Otherwise, do as follows:

The Misc tab is used to set some properties of a web content when publishing:

9. Select the option to set for this web content.

10. Click the Finish button to finishing creating a new web content for publication by SCV:

WCM 1.2 has a small change when publishing a content by SCV(Single Content Viewer). Following simple guides to publish the content:

1. Select the following path on the Administration bar to open the Single Content Viewer : Site Editor--> Add Content.

• Create new content: This option supports you to create a new web content quickly. SCV will refer to this new content for publishing.
• Select a content: This option supports you to select a web content that existed for publishing.

• Create a new content

The form to quickly create a new web content will appear:

Details:

3. Type a name for the Title field and select a template in the Select a template field.

4. Click on the Save button to accept entered values and complete step 1. Next to Step 2.

Step 2: After completing the step 1, the form to create a new web content at step 2 will appear:

1. Enter values for fields in this form.

In the Main content tab, you can:

• Insert a paragraph, text: Directly type a text into the text box of the Main content field or copy a paragraph from another document and paste it into this text box.
• Insert a link into the site's content: Click the icon on the Editor of the Main content field. The form to insert a link to a site page like:

In addition, click the Setting button in this form to select a view and a sort of links. After that, click the Save button to accept inserting the link.

• Insert a gadget

• Access the Application Registry page by select following path on the Administration bar: Groups --> Application Registry
• Import all gadgets by clicking on the Auto Import button at the upper right corner of this page.
• Back to the form to add a new content at step 2. Then, click on the icon on the Editor. List of gadgets is displayed in the default eXo Gadgets folder.
• Select one gadget in list. The gadget will be added in the content.

• Insert an image, a web content or a DMS document by FCK Editor Plugins

• Click the icon. The FCKEditor Plugins eXo Utils will appear:

• Select one of these below types in the drop down list menu in the Filter field.
  • Web Contents if users want to select an existing web content.
  • DMS Documents if users want to select an existing DMS document
  • Or Medias in case users want to select an existing media.

• Click Upload File if users want to upload a document or an image from your computer:

• Click the Browse button to select an image or a document and click the Upload button to upload an image.

• Enter the name for a document or an image in the Name field (this field is optional).
• Finish uploading an image or a document by clicking the Save button, if users don't enter the name for the Name field, it will be saved by its existing name.

• In addition, you also can align, assign format, use numbered list,… to make the site's content more attractive and more animated by using some functions which is supported by Editor.
• The Illustration tab: To upload an image to the web content. This image is used as an illustration of this content when you view it in the Content List Viewer:

• The Advanced tab: To present content in the Main Content field. This tab requires you should have knowledge about CSS.

2. Click on the Fast Publish button to accept the inputted values and complete Step 2. Next to Step 3

3. Or you can click on the Save Draft button to save this content as a draft.

Or click on the Preferences button to set some properties about permission and displaying properties: refer the above Step 3 for more details about setting permission.

Or click the Close button to close this form.

3 Select an existing content by Single Content Viewer

This option is to select an existing content for publication. It supports you to publish an existing web content or an existing DMS document:

1. Click the icon to display the form to edit and then click on the link "Click on this to access advanced options for configuring the content" will display form as below:

• Select an existing web content: supports you to browse and then select the available web content of a specific site to publish.
• Selected an existing DMS document: supports you to browse and then select the available DMS document of a specific site to publish.

• location: The path to the selected content. To select an available web content or a document, click the icon next to the location field to open the Web content Nodes Selector/ Document Nodes Selector form. Select a site at the left pane and a web content or a document at the right pane by clicking the icon corresponding to it.

• publication: The name of life cycle that the selected web content/document will be assigned. The value of this field is default and you can not change this value.

3. Click the Save button to accept publishing the selected web content/document.

1. Select the following path on the Administration bar to open the Single Content Viewer : Site Editor--> Add Content.

2. Select one of the above options. If you select:

• Select a content

Details:

1. Select the content type in the list in the Filter by field.

2. Select a folder in a drive that contains the content on the left pane(if you selected document in the Filter by field, the corresponding documents in the folder that you have just selected on the left pane will be displayed on the right pane, the same as web content and media type).

3. Click on the icon which corresponds to the content that you want to select.

Furthermore, if there are many content in a folder, you can use the advanced search feature to search a specific content.

In the Content search form tab:

• Select a site in the Site Name field.
• Check the radio button at the beginning of a field to select the field that you want to search. For example, you want to search by word or phrase, check the radio button that corresponds to the A word or phrase in context field, then enter a search term in this field.
• Click on the Search button to perform searching the desired content/document. All search result will be displayed in the Search result tab of this form:

Click on the icon to select the content.

Or view the detail content of each content by clicking the magnifying glass icon. The detail content will be displayed in the new tab named Result Viewer

After publishing a web content, a document or a media by Single Content Viewer, the selected content will be displayed at the bottom of a page in a site that a user is using.