Blogging with CUE Live

To start blogging, select Live Editor. For a new event, the Live Editor tab is almost empty, but you'll see a small entry editor at the bottom of the page:

The entry editor works more or less in the same way as an ordinary CUE content editor: fill in the displayed fields with the content you want, and when you are satisfied with the content, select Save to submit it for approval to your editor. Selecting Save will apparently cause the entry to just disappear, but in fact it is submitted to the Live Inbox, a holding area for unpublished entries. You can display the Live Inbox by selecting from the column of panel buttons on the left:

The entry in the editor shown above only contains one field, because all the other entry fields are hidden. You can display the other fields and edit them by selecting the button:

The main entry field is usually a rich text field as shown in the screenshots above, with a palette of formatting buttons above it that you can use for simple text styling and the insertion of hyperlinks. As well as formatting text you can drag in content from social media. Clicking on the button, for example, will open a Twitter feed in the panel on the left, and from there you can drag a tweet into the rich text field in the entry editor. You can add YouTube videos and RSS links to your entries in exactly the same way.

If your editor approves of an entry you have submitted to the inbox, then she can publish it. It will then be published online and also appear on the Live Editor page, in a list above the entry editor. Note that this list of published entries is displayed in chronological order, with the most recent at the bottom. This is most likely the opposite order to the published live blog, where it is normal to publish entries in reverse chronological order.