Use Case: Create Content Object

Actor: Content Creator

Assumptions: Content creator has logged into the CMF (see: Use Case: Login to the Site)

1. Navigate to a location within CMF where you have rights to add content. For example, selecting My Stuff from your navigation bar.
2. Select the folder contents link from the action's menu.
3. From the list of available content types, select the radio button corresponding to the type which you wish to create (see: Default CMF Content Types).
4. Enter an appropriate ID for the new piece of content.
   • ID's are not to be confused with the content's Title. ID's cannot contain special characters (i.e. commas, asterics, brackets of any type and so on). A good practise is not to use spaces in an ID either. The ID is used in the url to reach the content, so any character which is not allowed in a URI is not allowed in the id (see: URI RFC).
5. After entering a valid ID, select the Add button, and the new content is now created.
6. After the content type has been created, you browser is directed to the Standard Resource Metadata edit form which is common across all of the default content types which come stock with the CMF. This form is where you will enter specific metadata about your new content type:
   • Title - A string used to identify your content.
   • Description - A short summary of the content.
   • Subject - Used for cataloging your content
7. After entering the title, your content's description, and a subject or list of subjects, you have 3 options to proceed:
   • Change - Commit your changes and return to the Standard Resource Metadata form.
   • Change and Edit - Commit your changes and proceed to the edit form for adding the "body" of your content. The edit form is not shared across the different content types and will be discussed in more detail below.
   • Change and View - Commit your changes and proceed to viewing your new piece of content.
8. Note although there are 3 options to proceed, to complete adding your content, the logical processions is selecting Change and Edit from the Standard Resource Metadata form. After selecting Change and Edit, you proceed onto the edit form for the content type:
   • Body Textarea/File Upload edit form (Documents)
   • Lead-in/Body edit form (News Item)
   • File Upload edit form (Files, Images)
   • Simple edit form (Link, Favorite, Event)
9. On the corresponding edit form for the content type you selected in step 3, fillout the form and select change. This concludes creating a content object in the CMF. Depending on your site's buisness rules, you could be required to submit your new content through a publishing workflow (see: Use Case: Submit content for publication)