GovCMS Content Administration Manual
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GovCMS Content Administration Training Manual
Contributing and Feedback Guide
Introduction to GovCMS
Introduction to GovCMS
Overview of user roles
Training Videos
GovCMS how-to videos
Unit 1: Intro to the Admin Backend
How to login to GovCMS
How to log out from your site
The Frontend Homepage Layout
How to access the content management area
Overview of content management area
Content management - filters overview
Administration menu overview
Unit 2: More about GovCMS
Content types overview
Overview of content create/edit form
Form fields and form widgets
Fields and properties
Structured content in GovCMS
Overview of Rich text editor
Embedding media files
Text format
Content references in GovCMS
UNIT 3: MANAGING CONTENT IN GOVCMS
Creating Content
Editing content
Archiving content
How content changes can affect the site
UNIT 4: MANAGING CONTENT REVISIONS
Managing content revisions
UNIT 5: CONTENT MODERATION IN GOVCMS
Content moderation in GovCMS
UNIT 6: Files and media assets
Managing files and media assets in GovCMS
Media library
UNIT 7: MANAGING URL ALIASES AND REDIRECTS
URL aliases and redirects
UNIT 8: META TAGS AND SEO
Meta tags and SEO
Tokens and default meta tags
UNIT 9: USING TAXONOMY TO CATEGORIZE CONTENT AND MEDIA
Taxonomy and Vocabulary
Overview of Taxonomy form widgets
UNIT 10: MANAGING SITE NAVIGATIONS AND BREADCRUMBS
About site navigation
About breadcrumbs
Managing menu items
UNIT 11: CAPTURING DATA WITH FORMS
Capturing data with forms
Webform components
UNIT 12: ADVANCED CONTENT EDITING
Advanced content editing
Using Components for rich layout options
Advanced - content bulk operations
Appendix A - Glossary
Glossary
About Salsa Digital
Who is Salsa Digital?
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Fields and properties

Fields allow content administrators to enter data into the backend of their GovCMS site. The fields available vary depending on the content type, however some fields are common (and mandatory) across all content types, including a Title.
Some fields are optional, for example the body field in a Webform.
Field settings, such as whether a field is optional or mandatory and the associated widget type are pre-configured by your site builder when building the site. For example, for an Event content type in GovCMS, the start and end date and time are logical and necessary, so they are configured to be mandatory fields.
Image of Event with widgets

A property is set at a deeper level (sometimes referred to as "baked in"). For example, all content has a date it was created on, and this date property plus any associated functionality is fixed. It is part of GovCMS and the underlying Drupal CMS.
The screenshot below shows both the Author property and the Last saved property which are visible to the author when editing the Event.
Image showing Properties
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