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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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  1. UNIT 3: MANAGING CONTENT IN GOVCMS
  2. Creating Content

Exercise 3.1 - Create some content

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In this exercise you will learn how to create content, specifically a new Page.

  1. To begin, you may wish to click on the Home menu item to return to the homepage of your training site.

  2. On the Admin menu hover over Content, then hover over Add content and click Page.

    The Page is one of the simplest types of content. You should see a page similar to the screenshot below:

  3. Add some text to the Title field (for the moment, ignore the other fields). Title is the default required field.

  4. Click on the Save button at the bottom of the page. You’ll automatically be taken to the page as it will appear on the frontend of your website. Notice that we are saving this content as "Draft".

  5. Make a note of the URL.

Once you have saved the new content, you will notice the following GovCMS features:

  2. You can see a status message, which is only visible to you. This message disappears if you refresh the page.

  3. You can see the additional tabs such as View, Edit, Delete and Revisions. These are only visible because you’re logged in (they cannot be seen by the public).

  4. The new content is not live/published and will not be until it goes through a publishing workflow (because we saved it as "Draft"). This means that if you log out you won’t be able to see the content nor would a site visitor see this new content.

If you go back to the Content administration area by clicking on the Content button in the Admin menu, you will see your new content in the content listing. In the Content Type column, the content you just added will be listed as a Page.

The title of the new page is part of the page’s URL. We look at this feature more in .

Unit 7: URL Aliases and Redirects
Page content created success page
Newly added content