Rock U - Content Management - Content Channel Types and Content Channels v13

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In this video, we'll take a deep dive into how you set up and administrate content channel types and content channels. We'll start by looking at content channel types, which you can get to under admin tools and CMS configuration and content channel types. And we ship with a few out of the box, but let's take a look at, one of these content channel types. We'll take a look at the blogs content channel type. Okay. So as you're setting up a content channel type so the content channels that you create will be of this type. So this is a generic one for blogs, which means each of the different blogs that you have would be content channels under this content channel type, and then the blog posts themselves would be content channel items. But here at the type level, you can define a name for the type, which is pretty basic. You can also define the date range type. And, , for blog posts, you might use a single date, which is the date that it was published. Ads for events might use a date range because they shouldn't be up forever. Others might use no dates if having a date doesn't really make sense for the content channel type that that you're working with. We have an include time, option, and this might be handy for blog posts, so that you can post at a certain date and time, but less probably for ads. Over here, we have disable priority. Priority just indicates how important the content is, which you might use more for ads, but probably less for blog posts. So if you want a priority, you can you can uncheck this. Next, have the disable content field. And what that's gonna do is that's gonna hide the content field on your content channel items. So in those cases, when you display the content channel items, their content would just be driven by attributes. Over to the right, we have disable status. If the status is disabled, then all of the content channel items, under this type will be automatically set to approved. Then we have show in channel lists, which if this is disabled, then the content channel type will be hidden from lists of content channels. So if you're adding a new content channel, you wouldn't be able to select this as a type if this is unchecked. You can have channel attributes. Channel attributes apply to every content channel of this type, a blog image that we have here, for example, so that each blog would have its own image. And then down below here, you have item attributes. And these are attributes that apply to all of the content channel items of this type. So this would allow, for instance, a summary and an image to be added for each individual blog post. In in other words, each content channel item. So that's the content channel type. Next, we'll look at content channels, which we can get to, again, under admin tools, CMS configuration, and content channels. And from here, we have a few different content channels, but we're gonna look at the website blog. And we'll go ahead and edit that to look at how this channel is configured. So up at the top, you have your standard, name and description. And then you have the content channel type that this is, and this will be blogs, the one that we just looked at. You can also add, your content channels to a category, external site or internal, to help, organize and categorize your content channels. You can add child content channels. There's a separate video for that, so we're gonna skip over that. Down here, you have the is structured content option. And this is a more advanced feature where you can use, structured content instead of the usual HTML or code editors when you're actually adding your content, your your content channel item content. Down below, have the default content control. So, as a content channel item gets added and you're adding content for it, it should default to the code editor or the HTML editor. If using the HTML editor, you have down here the root image directory. And that's , you can upload images when you're using the HTML editor, and this tells the system where you want those images to land. Down below, you can indicate if the items require approval. So this lets you hold off on having content published until they've been reviewed and approved. You can also choose to index, the content channel item, which, you probably primarily use for if you're doing universal search or something that. This is, you can search for, for content channel information that way. Down below, we have the content channel item publishing point. And you would use this if you want to provide a direct link to the content channel. You can enter the URL here into this, Lava enabled field. Next, can choose to have the items manually ordered or the child items manually ordered. So, , sometimes you might wanna click and drag the items so that they're ordered in a certain way, and this is that lets you do that. You have here a blog image. And this is from the type attribute. So we had a content channel attribute, of image. And this is where we would say, okay, for this blog, this is the image that represents this blog. Down below, you can enable r RSS. RSS is how you put your content out there to be syndicated. Blogs will use this for blog feeds. You'll provide the channel URL, which is, where to find information about the channel on your website. Then you have the content channel item publishing point, which references this field down here. And that's the URL to get to go to to get the, channel items. And then you have the time to live. And that basically says, how long should I wait before coming back to look for more content? You can also enable tagging. So you would enable this to add tags to your content channel items just person tags that you see on the person profile. And then down at the bottom, we have item attributes. And these are additional attributes, to those defined on the type, but these would be attributes that apply to all of the content channel items that are of this content channel. So once you have your channel in place, you can actually start adding content channel items. And we'll take a look at an item quickly here. So here's our website blog. Let's go ahead and take a look at this first item. You can tell that it has, starts off with a title, and then it has its status, pending approved or denied, if that applies. You have a URL slug. So that's the way that people can access this content channel item directly. You can set when the content channel item is to be active. So this is the date and the time that it'll be made active. And, again, this this timepiece is based on the prior settings that we looked at, for the content channel type. Then down below, we have the actual content. So, this is a blog, so this would be the content of the blog post itself. And then down below, we have the summary, which was the, attribute that we configured on the content channel type, and then the image, which is, also another attribute set on the content channel type level. So we can provide a summary, for this particular blog post and an image for this particular blog post based on our content channel type configuration. So from content channel types to content channels to content channel items, that's how you work with content channels. For more details on working with content channels, check out our other Rock U videos as well as the designing and building websites using Rock manual. Thanks for watching.