Blog

Understand the basics

The Blog component allows administrators to post news about a participatory space, which participants can read to get updates.

All blog posts are available on the post list, and participants can click each blog post to learn more about what’s new.

Configuration

To create a Blog component, first go in the participatory space where you want to create it.

Then:

Click on the "Components" item in the secondary menu
Click the "Add component" button
Select "Blog"
Fill the component creation form

You can still update this form and the configuration after creating the component, by clicking the icon on the components list.

Table 1. Add component: Blog form

Field	Type	Description
Name	Required	The title of this component. For instance, "Blogs" or "Latest news"
Order position	Optional	Which order it has in relation to the other components. Having a lower number means a higher priority.

Table 2. Blog form - Global settings

Field	Type	Description
Announcement	Optional	A general announcement visible on the Blog component landing page.
Comments enabled	Optional	If you want participants to be able to comment on the blog posts.
Comments max length	Optional	The characters limit that participants have when making comments. Leave 0 for default value.

Table 3. Step settings

Field	Type	Description
Announcement	Optional	A general announcement that will be visible on the general blog landing page.
Comments blocked	Optional	Whether you want to enable comments creation for this phase.
Endorsements enabled	Optional	Whether you want to enable endorsements for this phase.
Endorsements blocked	Optional	Whether you want to enable adding new endorsements for this phase.

Manage posts

To start creating and managing posts, click on the component title in the navigation bar or on the component list, or click on the icon on the components list.

Create a post

To create a post, click the "New post" button on the top right of the page.

Table 4. New post form

Field	Type	Description
Author	Required	Participant account or user group authoring the post.
Title	Required	What is the title of this post.
Body	Required	What is the description of this post.
Publish time	Optional	Publication date for the post. If in the future, the post is not published until this date.

Actions

Table 5. Actions

Icon	Name	Definition
	Edit	Edit this post.
	Folder	For classifying attachments.
	Attachments	Add documents related to the post.
	Preview	See how it’s shown in the frontend to participants.
	Permissions	Handle the authorizations needed to comment or endorse this specific blog post.
	Delete	Delete this post.