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• Creating an Article

Introduction

Creating an article in iCM is going to be the most used part of the content management system. Articles are what make up a website and all the content that is needed to be shown on a website: it will be done through articles.

Once presented with the home page choose the 'start work' in the actions panel or click the iCM Explorer title bar. Once this has been done, expand the content folder within the iCM Explorer and either double click articles item or right click the item and choose "Select 'Articles'".

This action will load the Articles Explorer. The Articles Explorer displays the article tree, which should contain at least one article; you may need to click the + button to expand the tree or the - button to collapse the tree. The work area will display a list of the current tasks (if any) followed by a list of the most recently modified articles. Above the work area a search facility will be displayed which includes a checkbox to allow a user to specify a search for a specific ID. The items in both the panel and in the work area can be right clicked to display a list of actions that can be taken with the selected item.

Access to the article tree may be restricted depending on your privileges. An article may be visible in the article tree but this does not necessarily mean it can be edited or deleted as determined by privileges set upon the user.

To create a new article, select the article that will become the parent article, hover over the article then right click to bring up the list of actions that are available for the selected item, right click and choose 'create an article' from the list of actions, this now changes your work area.

Once the work area is then changed you are free to create your web page article.

• Creating and Relating Media
  Content that is not a page is given the name media; examples of media include Microsoft Word Documents, Adobe Pdf files and images.
• Creating and Relating Links
  A link is the name given to an item of content that will form a link to an external website. It is an area which you will use to add non-textual content to the website.