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Adding site updates to your project
The content owner created your project. Now it is time to add your changes and updates to the project. Projects are used when you have more than one update so that you can organize these changes for easy publishing at a later point in the project.
Procedure
- Update your site within your project. Updates might include moving a page in your site
navigation, creating a new page, adding content to a page, and more.
- If you want to add a new page to your project, click a page in site manager, and click the
context menu icon
. From the context menu, you can create a sibling, child, or copy of the selected page. - If you want to add content to a page in your project, click a page in site manager, and click
the context menu icon . From the context menu, click Create Content.
- If you want to add page components or applications to an existing page, navigate to that page
and click
Add page components and applications in the site toolbar.
- If you want to add a new page to your project, click a page in site manager, and click the
context menu icon
Results
As you add pages and other content, click project menu at any point to get a quick view of the content that you add to the project and to edit content. When you edit a content item, you can click Preview to see your edits in the context of the site. Other content authors can edit and collaborate on content in this project.
You might want to add content to your project that exists in a library on the site. To add content to a project from an existing library, click from the project menu.
Example
- Example: Adding a new page from a page template to the project
- You want to create a new page to add to the Fall Conference project.
- From the action bar, you click Open the project menu. You see the Fall Conference project that is listed in the Recent Projects view. You click Fall Conference to enter the project.
- You plan to work with experts that are attending the conference on an article about new technologies. You want the article to appear on the page that you create for this project, and you want your new page to be a child page of the existing "About" page. In site manager, you select the "About" page and open the Show available options menu. You select Create child page, and then you select the Articles template as a starting point for your page. This template already contains a place holder article and a view to display a list of the articles that are created on the page. You name your page and give your page a friendly URL name. You click Create Page.
- You see other options for your page. You decide to change the layout of your page to three columns. You plan to use the third column on the page for promotions.
- You click Open the projects menu, then click View Project Content, and see the Sample Article that was automatically included by the Articles template added to the Fall Conference project. You click the Sample Article and select View properties to change the name of the article to New Technologies.
- Example: Adding existing content from a library to the project
- You want to add an article to the Fall Conference about new technologies. The article exists in a library on your site.
- From the action bar, you click Open the projects menu. You see the Fall Conference project that is listed in the Recent Projects view. You click Fall Conference to enter the project.
- To find the new technologies article, click .
- From the library, click .
- Click Finish. You see the new technologies article that is listed in the Contents area of Projects Overview.