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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
      • Exercise 1.1 - Login and Setting up TFA
    • How to log out from your site
    • Administration menu overview
      • Exercise 1.3 - Add a non-admin user
    • The Frontend Homepage Layout
      • Exercise 1.2 - View the Site Frontend content
    • How to access the content management area
    • Overview of content management area
    • Content management - filters overview
      • Exercise 1.4 - Filtering Content
  • 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
      • Exercise 3.1 - Create some content
    • Editing content
      • Exercise 3.3 - Edit a piece of content
    • Archiving content
      • Exercise 3.4 - Archiving content
    • How content changes can affect the site
  • UNIT 4: MANAGING CONTENT REVISIONS
    • Managing content revisions
      • Exercise 4.1 - View revisions history
      • Exercise 4.2 - Revert a content revision
  • UNIT 5: CONTENT MODERATION IN GOVCMS
    • Content moderation in GovCMS
      • Exercise 5.1 - Content moderation
  • UNIT 6: Files and media assets
    • Managing files and media assets in GovCMS
    • Media library
      • Exercise 6.1 - Uploading and using media
      • Exercise 6.2 - Manage media - Bulk Operations
  • UNIT 7: MANAGING URL ALIASES AND REDIRECTS
    • URL aliases and redirects
      • Exercise 7.1 - Update a page's URL alias
      • Exercise 7.2 - Create a URL alias
      • Exercise 7.3 - Create a Redirect (advanced)
  • UNIT 8: META TAGS AND SEO
    • Meta tags and SEO
    • Tokens and default meta tags
      • Exercise 8.1 - Update meta tags of content
  • UNIT 9: USING TAXONOMY TO CATEGORIZE CONTENT AND MEDIA
    • Taxonomy and Vocabulary
    • Overview of Taxonomy form widgets
      • Exercise 9.1 - Add taxonomy terms
      • Exercise 9.2 - Add taxonomy to a Page
  • UNIT 10: MANAGING SITE NAVIGATIONS AND BREADCRUMBS
    • About site navigation
    • About breadcrumbs
    • Managing menu items
      • Exercise 10.1 - Add an item to a menu
  • UNIT 11: CAPTURING DATA WITH FORMS
    • Capturing data with forms
      • Exercise 11.1 - Create a basic Webform
    • Webform components
      • Exercise 11.2 - Attach a form to a Webform page
      • Exercise 11.3 - Create an event registration form
  • UNIT 12: ADVANCED CONTENT EDITING
    • Advanced content editing
    • Advanced - content bulk operations
      • Exercise 12.2 - Bulk operations - delete test content
  • Appendix A - Glossary
    • Glossary
  • About Salsa Digital
    • Who is Salsa Digital?
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Structured content in GovCMS

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What is structured content

For the purposes of this course, structured content can be thought of as the information, data or content that is entered into and stored in a GovCMS site.

A number of content types and their assoicated fields have been defined in GovCMS. See .

Fields and structured content

Using fields in GovCMS allows content authors to add content once, and display the information across the site in a variety of different ways. Using fields to capture and display data (structured content), removes the burden of managing the same content in multiple areas of the website.

In the example below, the website is configured to display the “GovCMS Information session”, (which is an Event content type) in two different displays:

  1. A Teaser display (used in listings)

  2. The Full Page display. It shows the same event, but the information presented to the public differs based on the website configuration.

Similarly, a Job listing search may reveal summary information about the advertised job, as displayed below:

Clicking the job title brings the viewer to the full page with more details about the particular job listing.

Reuse of content

This is the same content, displayed by the CMS in a different layout to the end user.

The information is captured via the content editing form, and GovCMS will display it in the way preconfigured by the site builder (the web development partner or in-house team that built your website).

Content Editors do not usually have much flexibility in changing the layout of the page (or a display, such as the search page display). However, the use of advanced tools - like Panelizer and Paragraphs - allows some advanced control to the page layout and provides additional display options depending on your GovCMS website configuration.

Resuse of media assets

Media assets (such as images or PDF files) are also reused and presented to the viewer in a variety of ways. For example, an image that was uploaded as part of content creation gets stored in the central Media library. That image can be referenced from other pages, and GovCMS will create a copy of the image in line with the preconfigured image dimensions.

This image may be displayed at its full dimensions, as a thumbnail or other dimensions depending on the site configuration and where the image is displayed.

Unit 2 - Content types overview
Image of job listing
Image of job listing full view
Image of teaser display
Image of full page display