1. Open your blog application (myblog.nsf for example).

2. From the Content section of the navigator, click any of the views and then click New Content (New Podcast in the Podcast view). A draft Content or Podcast document appears.

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

4. Complete these fields:

Field	Action
Created	Completed automatically, but you can modify as required. To publish a comment at a later date, change the date and time field and change the status to Held.
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 for 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 - Publishes the content so that it appears on the blog. Held - The content is ready to be published but you do not yet want to publish it. Use this setting to retain content without publishing it. Use the Created date and time fields to specify a publish date and time. Expired - The content is not published and is considered obsolete. Note You can also publish a content document from the Content > Draft view by selecting the document in the view and clicking Publish on the toolbar.
Location	(Optional) Specify a location from the list of locations in the Configuration information or add a new one. This identifies where you were when you created the entry.
Author	By default, the name of the current user.
Rich Text	Enter your text. The text is automatically converted to IBM® Lotus® Notes® rich text.

5. Click Categories and Tags.

Field	Action
Primary Categories	Specify the primary category to which your content belongs. Note You can also specify an additional eight levels of subcategories.
Tags	Specify content tags for your content. Use commas to separate tag entries. If you do not specify at least one tag, Lotus Notes uses the content category as the tag.
Highlight	Select Yes to highlight this content entry. Highlighted content can then be used on the home page of the Web site. For example, you can create a list of “Highlighted Entries” on the home page in the same way as you have a list of “Recent Entries.”

6. Click Security and complete the fields in the table below to secure this content document.

Note The entire site is secured by the database ACL. Use these settings to secure individual documents or categories.

Field	Action
Security Group	Specify a security group to secure this document. Note If you assign a category to this document, the category security groups will automatically be inherited.
Lock Security	To apply a security group to an individual document, select Yes. Note Locking security prevents the category security settings from overriding the security settings for this document.
Document Expire Date	Specify a date on which the document expires. Use this field if the document is assigned a category that has an expiration date, but you do not want to use that expiration date.
Document Last Expired	Specify the date on which the document previously expired.
Exclude from Homepage	Select Yes to exclude this content from the Home page.
Exclude from Search	Select Yes to exclude this content from the site searching functionality.
Exclude from RSS	Select Yes to exclude this content from the site RSS feed.
Exclude full content from RSS	Select Yes to show only a short description of this content in the RSS feed.

Note Podcast documents and Content documents are the same thing. Use this field if you intended this to be a podcast but started out with a Content document.

Field	Action
Podcast Entry	Select Yes to classify the content as a podcast
Link URL	Complete this field if the podcast is on an external Web server or outside of the current application. Use the full http:// prefix.
Add Default Host to Podcast URL?	If a default external server is specified in the Configuration document, select Yes to use that server in front of the information provided in the Link URL field.
Use Database Attachment	Specify the attachment to use in the podcast.
Title	Enter the title of the podcast.
Media Type	Specify the media type, audio or video.
File Size	Enter the file size.
Duration (HH:MM:SS)	Enter the time duration of the podcast.

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.

• 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.

14. (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.

• 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.

See Also

Adding locations
Creating Configuration documents
Naming content
Categories and tags

Glossary