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Once you are logged-in, you are allowed to add several types of content: After log-in you will see a green frame around the page you are visiting. In the top line of the green frame, there are several menus on the right. To add something, click on - you guessed it - "Add new...", which gives you an overview of the content types you are allowed to add in this place. (In the "News" folder this is, for instance, restricted to "news" items.)

Title

You will have to give it a "Title" first. This title should be short, because the identifier in the URL of this web-page will be constructed from it. For instance, the title "Web Pages" of this page you are reading at the moment, became "web-pages" - therefore, it is clear that a title like "This is a web-page informing you about the usage of pages inside the Content Management System" will create a far-too-long web-address of your page. Because empty spaces are not allowed in web-addresses (URLs), they will automatically be replaced by "-". Of course, if you want to have a longer title but a short URL-name, you may change both after the creation of the page by clicking on "Actions => Rename" on the top right of the green frame. There, you could change the long title mentioned above into "web-page-usage" for the "New Short Name" while keeping the long version for the visible title on top of your document.

Summary/Description

To make it easier for your readers, please give a short summary for your document, if possible: This will also show up in "mouse-over-link" gestures or in some of the list views available for the content of the folder. Therefore, people might get an idea about your document without having to open and fully read it.

Save your work

When you're done with your work you click on the "save" button at the end of the document. If you are working on the content in several steps over a longer period of time, it might also be useful to write something - like "Added paragraph 3", for instance - into the "Change note" just above the "Save" and "Cancel" buttons: This will inform you and others working with the document in its history about the changes done when and by whom. (Any change anywhere in the portal is recorded in the database and can be "undone" at any time.) If your work will take longer, you probably should save the content from time to time and then edit it again - otherwise, your work might get lost when the internet connection breaks or your browser crashes (because HTML is not able to save such content "statically").

Publication

As long as you are no reviewer, you will not be allowed to publish the newly added content yourself: Therefore, if you think everything is ready for publication, click on the "State: Private" drop-down menu and chose "Submit for publication". Then, your document will show up in a list that reviewers see on the portal site once they are logged-in (again) and they might decide to publish your content immediately or to send it back - hopefully with a comment about what they think should be changed.