Help for Lotus Notes 8 (basic configuration)

WEB LOGS (BLOGS)

Creating Web pages
You can create a Web page to use in your blog. For example, you could use a Web page to store static content, such as contact information, to use in your blog.

1. Open a blog (myblog.nsf, for example).

2. From the Resource section of the navigator, click the Web Pages view.

3. Click Create Web Page.

4. The date and time that the content is created is entered in the Created field. You can modify these entries.

5. Complete these fields:

Field Action

Created Completed automatically, but you can modify as required.

Page Name (Optional) If you want to change the system-generated page name, specify a new unique page name in this field. Use the format name.htm and use only alpha and numeric characters. Do not use spaces.

Subject Specify the subject of the content.

Status Select a status from the list:

Draft (default) - Prevents the text from being published to the Web site while you are preparing it.
Published - The status must be set to this in order for content to appear on the blog.

Author Notes displays the name of the current user.

Rich Text Enter your text. The text is automatically converted to Notes Rich Text.

6. Click Text/HTML<head>, and then complete these fields:

Field Action

Short Description System-generated short description that is used in RSS fields. You can modify the short description.

Lock? If you modified the short description rather than using the system-generated one, select this to prevent the system from overriding it..

Text/HTML Specify plain text or HTML text that is not to be converted to rich text format.

<head> If you want to include additional HTML text in the heading on the Web page, specify that HTML text.

7. Click Misc and provide information for any of these fields:

Field Action

Additional JavaScript™ (Optional) Select a JavaScript™ file to use with the document.

Document Template If you want to override the default HTML template, select the HTML template that you prefer to use.

Exclude from Search Select Yes to exclude this content from the site searching functionality.

8. Click Attachments.

Note

You can attach files to each document for use as a list of attachments with your content, or you can specify that when a link to the document is clicked, the attachment is launched instead of the document.

9. To add attachments, click Action, and then choose one of the following:

Add Attachment from Directory - to select a file from your file directory
Add Attachment from Database - to select an attachment from a list of files that have been attached to the blog application.

10. Select the file you want to attach and click Open. The attached file appears on the tab, along with information such as size, publication status, and description.

11. (Optional) To autolaunch the attachment when the document link is clicked, select the name of the attached file from the list.

Tip

If an attachment does not appear in the list, click

Refresh

12. (Optional) There are two actions you can take from the toolbar of the Content document to keep attachment information current:

Refresh - click this to refresh the list of attachments.
Manual Sync - click this to ensure that any data stored with the attachments is identical to the content document, such as subject, categorization, or security. Normally, the template keeps this information current. However, if a user makes changes to the resource documents, it may be necessary to manually synchronize the information again.

13. Click Save & Close.

See Also

Naming content

Managing blog resources

Importing attachments

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Field	Action
Created	Completed automatically, but you can modify as required.
Page Name	(Optional) If you want to change the system-generated page name, specify a new unique page name in this field. Use the format name.htm and use only alpha and numeric characters. Do not use spaces.
Subject	Specify the subject of the content.
Status	Select a status from the list: Draft (default) - Prevents the text from being published to the Web site while you are preparing it. Published - The status must be set to this in order for content to appear on the blog.
Author	Notes displays the name of the current user.
Rich Text	Enter your text. The text is automatically converted to Notes Rich Text.

Field	Action
Short Description	System-generated short description that is used in RSS fields. You can modify the short description.
Lock?	If you modified the short description rather than using the system-generated one, select this to prevent the system from overriding it..
Text/HTML	Specify plain text or HTML text that is not to be converted to rich text format.
<head>	If you want to include additional HTML text in the heading on the Web page, specify that HTML text.

Field	Action
Additional JavaScript™	(Optional) Select a JavaScript™ file to use with the document.
Document Template	If you want to override the default HTML template, select the HTML template that you prefer to use.
Exclude from Search	Select Yes to exclude this content from the site searching functionality.