Creating content
Once you have created a group, a new block should be present on your group pages with entries like 'Create Blog entry', 'Create Poll', etc. Clicking on any of these links will take you to a content creation form for the indicated content type.
Understanding Content Types in Drupal Commons
Groups
- Almost everything happens inside a group of some kind
- Groups may be actual groups that exist somewhere or simply a theme or topic
- Registered members of the site can join groups and contribute content to that group
- Groups allow content of the following kinds to be added within the group
Blog posts
- Blogs are "web logs," that is: date-ordered journals
- Blogs are used to record content that will quickly be out of date
- Blog posts tend to be short, pithy, inspirational or explorative
Documents
- Documents are used to store useful information, in an orderly manner
- Documents easily incorporate attachments of the most common file-types
- A collection of documents can provide a useful repository for a community-group
Discussions
- Discussions provide an interactive forum for online text-based discussions
- Discussions facilitate a large number of people commenting freely on a given topic
Wikis
- Wikis allow a large number of contributors to interactively author and edit a single document (a 'wiki')
- For example, each article on Wikipedia is a wiki
- Wiki's are particularly useful when a group is trying to pioneer a new idea or to define a new concept
Polls
- Polls provide a quick way of surveying opinions from site members or visitors
- Poll authors can decide how long the survey is available
- Voters see a percentage summary of how the vote is progressing
Events
- Events are date-organised content and appear on a group calendar
- Events can be on a single day, or spread over a longer period
Groups:
- Paul Swanson's blog
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