• Web Services
• For Content Managers
• Basic Access & Editing Instructions
• How to create a new page

How to create a new page

Part I

1. Login to the OU Campus Content Management System (for login details, see: "How to Login to the Content Management System").
2. Expand the "Split-screen" view view so you can see the files in your site.
3. Scroll down to, click on and open the template you want to use for the new page.
   1. Note: Most of the time you will select "template-inside-page.pcf". "Template-inside-page-contacts.pcf" contains the contact info for the department which is also on the dept. home page and may only rarely be needed on an inside-the-site page.
4. When the template opens in the right-hand window, check-out the template by clicking on the "Check out" button.
5. Click on the "Edit" button.
6. Click on the "Expand split-screen" icon again.
7. Click on the "edit main content" button.
8. Click on the "Save as..." icon in the tool bar.
9. The "Save As" dialog box appears with your site name after a forward slash "/".
10. Without removing the "/yoursitename":
    1. add another forward slash, then the file name you want to use plus ".pcf"
       1. Adding the ".pcf" is extremely important. if you forget to do this, you will need to delete the file and start over again.
    2. Click the "Save As" button
    3. Please Note: if you are creating a new page that will reside inside a folder within your site, you will need to add another forward slash plus the folder name plus another forward slash.  As in: "/foldername/", with "foldername" being the name of the folder into which you plan to save the file.
       
       1. For example, if I were saving the file "newpage.pcf" into a folder called "samples" on the webservices site, I would complete the above as:
          "/webservices/samples/newpage.pcf"
11. Once saved, you will see the new file appear in your directory structure in the left of the split-screen view and the file path you entered in Step 10 displayed above the "edit" button.

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