Creating Content

To create a new content item, select the button (at the left end of the menu bar) and then select the required content type from the displayed dialog:

If you can't see a button for the content type you want to create, then use the Search for other options field to find the content type you want to create.

The new content item is displayed in a new browser tab and will look something like this:

Exactly what fields are included in the content item depends on its type. The fields are usually divided into groups that are displayed on separate pages. The group names are listed at the top of the content editor, and you can switch between the pages by clicking/tapping the group names. The most commonly-used fields are displayed in the first, default group, while less-used fields are relegated to the other groups.

Click / tap on these links to switch between the cards.

Now all you need to do is to fill in some fields (all the required ones marked with * at least) and click Save to save your content item.

If you've not used a tab-based webapp before, now is probably a good time to look closely at what has happened. You started up CUE in one tab, and when you clicked on the button to create a new content item, the content item was created in a new tab. So now you have two CUE tabs open in your browser:

The original CUE home page, which has the tab name CUE.
Your new content item, which has the content item title as its tab name.

This means that if you have a number of CUE tabs open in your browser, you can easily see what is what.

The advantage of displaying each content item in its own browser tab is that each CUE content item effectively becomes a web page, with a unique and unchanging URL, just like any other web page. This means you can bookmark content items using your browser's bookmark functions if you want. And if you copy the URL of a content item and send it to another CUE user by mail or chat, then that person can open the content item in CUE by simply clicking on the link (and logging in if necessary).

When you create a content item in this way using the menu bar button, it is added to your publication's default section (usually called New Articles or something similar). You can move it, or add it to other sections as well if you want. You can, however, also create content items from the home page's Sections ( ) panel: this allows you to create the content items directly in the correct section.