Rock U - Content Management - Content Library

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The content library in Rock is a powerful tool that's meant to facilitate content sharing between churches. This is a powerful feature that lets you share content that would otherwise be limited to just a single audience. Let's take a look at how it works. We'll start with the content channel under admin tools and CMS configuration and then content channels. And, we'll take a look at the website articles blog here. So we have a few, items listed here, for for the website articles. But for now, we're interested in clicking the download from library button over to the top right of the of the list of items. And if we click that, this brings us to the content library itself, which is called the the library viewer. Along the left, you have the articles. We can go ahead and hit the, download article button over here. And when we do that, we can choose when to make it active. It is a content channel item. We can give it a status, and, we need to click that, we agree to comply with the terms of the open license. And then all we need to do is click download, and it's downloaded. And it tells us that right there. Now, at this point, you can redownload and refresh. And if you do that, any changes that you might have made to the content will be undone if you're able to make changes, which we'll get into that in a minute. There are a few things that we wanna highlight in the list of articles over here. So the first is you can see which items you've already downloaded because they're gonna have that little green download icon there just the one we're looking at now has. You'll also see that, each article contains some keywords, foundational or character. We'll look at those in a minute too. But, also, you can see how many times the item has been downloaded, with a little count down here. You may also be interested in the sort and filter options near the top right of the page. So you can sort the articles according to publish date, downloads, or their organization. And then you can also filter by topics. There's a lot of topics to choose from or by organizations, a variety of different options. So you don't have to, , worry about taking on the entire library at once. You can look for content that's relevant to you and, filter for that. Back on the content channel page, you can see that, the item that we just downloaded has been, added to our list. If we click on website articles, there's the article, that we just downloaded, and you can see it appears in in the list. It's got the green icon over here indicating it was downloaded. You can also click that icon to to redownload and and refresh, the data. Now sometimes you'll see a blue icon, and a blue icon means that, the item has been submitted to the library already. But, also, you'll see these black icons, and those ones just mean that, you haven't uploaded it to the library, but you can just by clicking the button. And then once you do, it'll turn blue. Okay. So let's take a look at this content channel. We're gonna go ahead and edit it. And here, just wanna point out a couple things related to the content library. So here we have a pretty standard, content channel, but what we're really interested in is the content library section down below here. Of course, the first item there is enable library for this channel, and that's something that we need to have enabled in order to access the library, using this channel to download and upload, content. And then beneath that, you can pick a license. You can see we have a link here that'll take you to a page with, the license details. So if we click that, it'll go over exactly the the the different types of licenses and what they mean, you don't have to worry about that. But just so , open license basically means people can take the content and do whatever they want with it and and not give you credit for it because if they're changing it, it's no longer your work. Author attribution means people can't modify the content and must give credit to the author wherever the content gets published. Organization attribution is basically author attribution, except you have to give credit to the organization as well as the author, if the author is provided. You'll also notice at the bottom of the panel there that there are fields for summary, image, and author. These all appear in the library as well and are actually attributes set up at the content channel level. You'll need to manually add one for author if it doesn't already exist. Okay. So let's go back now and take a look at some of the content library features within the content channel items themselves. So if we go back here, and let's take a look at, one of ours, the power of forgiveness. And so right away, what we're focused on here is the experience level up at the top and the topic. These are both featured prominently as tags, when you're searching or looking through the list of items in the library just we saw earlier. And just so , there is a lengthy list of topics to choose from. There's there's quite a few under different categories. This list cannot be changed or or customized. It needs to remain the same so that everything can be shared between churches smoothly. If everybody had their own topic, it would get a little bit chaotic. We hope you found this video to be helpful. For more information, check out the designing and building websites using Rockmanual, and thanks for watching.