Adding content

This page explains how to create a new item: an article, a folder, an image or any other type your site offers. Changing an item that already exists is explained in Editing content.

Who may do it

Anyone whose role may create content of that type in that place. The list of types you are offered depends on two things: which types the place may hold, and which types your role may create there. Ask an administrator when the type you need is missing.

Create a new item

1. Open the place where the new item belongs, for example a folder, in the Content structure tab, the Media tab or the Users tab.
2. Above the Sub items list, press Create new. The types you may create here are listed, in groups.
3. Choose the type, for example Article.
4. If the site has several content languages, the page Language selection asks in which language to create the item. Choose it and press OK. The edit form opens with an empty draft.
5. Fill in the fields. A red * marks the fields that must be filled.
6. Press Send for publishing. The item is created below the place you chose in step 1.

The form of a new item works exactly like the form of an existing one; The edit form describes every part of it.

Other ways to the same result

• In the tree, click the icon in front of a name and choose Create here, then the type.
• Create multiple new, next to Create new, opens one form in which you fill in several new items for the same place at once.
• For images and other files, Upload on the folder's page makes one new item per file. See Images and files.
• On the public site, when you are signed in, the website sidebar can create items below the page you are looking at. See The website interface.

Publish, keep or discard

• Send for publishing creates the item and publishes it. If your site uses an approval, the new item waits under My pending items until someone approves it.
• Store draft and exit keeps the unfinished item as a draft. Only you see it, under My drafts on the dashboard; the item does not exist on the site yet.
• Discard draft throws the draft away after you confirm. For a new item that means the item is not created at all.

While you work, the form saves the draft by itself every few minutes. See Autosave.

What can go wrong

• Create new is grayed out, or the type you need is missing. The place cannot hold items (it is not a container), or your role may not create that type there. Choose another place, or ask an administrator.
• The form comes back with a message. A required field is empty or a value is not valid. The message at the top names the field. Correct it and publish again.
• The new item is not on the site. It waits for approval, it is hidden, or it was stored as a draft. Look under My pending items and My drafts on the dashboard.
• The item is in the wrong place. Move it: see Moving content.

Read more

• Creating and editing content, in the help center.
• How do I find and finish my drafts?
• Publishing, versions and the trash