From the menu bar, click Browse and select any of the available choices
Content types represent various categories of content within WCM. WCM content types are articles, news items, photos, slideshows, items, collections, polls, and forums. Within each class are various content objects, which represent individual instances of content. For example, the content type Article might contain the content object "Wikinews at Toronto film fest party, with Diddy".
WCM provides a function whereby users can retrieve all of a given content type. For example, if you wanted to view all polls that had been created, you would click Browse and select Polls. You could also use this procedure as a first step to locating a specific poll, then drill down with a more refined search.
A keyword search is a simple search method using a word or phrase. WCM users can make their keyword searches very precise through the use of special search operators.
To search a specific phrase, place the words between quotation marks. For example, "Montreal Canadians" will only find instances where this exact phrase occurs.
The AND (+) operator is used to search for two or more words, with the condition that both words must appear in the content object that is returned
The NOT (-) operator is used to ensure that the specified word does not occur in the search results
Use AND & NOT to search one term and exclude an additional term. For example, to retrieve articles about earthquakes that do not mention hurricanes, enter "earthquake AND NOT hurricane".
Forward slash (/), back slash (\) and hyphen (-), are reserved characters that cannot be successfully used to locate text that includes these characters. However, to locate text that includes these characters, one can simply omit these characters from search strings. Thus, to find an article with the headline "Little Red Riding-Hood", the user would enter "Little Red Riding Hood" (note the absence of the hyphen) in a keyword search or in the Full text or Title field for an advanced search.
Advanced search is a method whereby users can specify multiple criteria for the search, using the lists and fields provided.
Select a site for your search.
Select a workflow state.
Select a section of the site.
Choose a time frame to search by publication date.
Choose a content type.
To search multiple fields of the article or news item, enter text here.
The fields searched will depend on how "full text" was defined when your website was configured. Generally, "full text" searches all text fields (for example the title or headline, body, author and so on), but not numerical fields such as dates.
To search by title, enter it here.
The Title field only returns content that exactly matches the string entered (except for case; it is not case sensitive). Thus, a search for "Chicago" would return an article entitled Chicago, but not one entitled Chicago, the windy city. In order to search articles containing either of the above titles, use wildcards (that is, enter *Chicago*) or enter your string in the Full text field instead of the Title field.
To move from page to page, click the arrow keys, or use the First, Last, Next and Previous buttons.
To sort search results by one of the criteria listed in the List view headers, such as Title, click the desired header.
Two buttons in the upper right allow you to select between Grid View and Gallery View
Grid view is a method of displaying the assets from a search in rows and columns, like pictures in an art gallery. Gallery view is particularly practical for image-based assets, because it makes it easy to scan the thumbnails.
Gallery view is the default view mode for browsing photo, slideshow and video content objects, and can be a practical option when a search returns content objects from multiple content types.
To retrieve all content for a section, enter channelId: [section ID], replacing [section ID] with the numerical section ID. Example: channelId:1
To know the ID for a section, click Advanced search>Editorial and observe the numbers displayed beside the section in the Section dropdown list.
Filters are criteria that allow users to narrow down lists of content in order to target only content that meets certain additional requirements. Thus, for example, a WCM user might first browse all articles, and then apply filters to display only articles from a certain section, or to locate articles containing a specific word or phrase. WCM provides quick functions to filter search results by keyword, by TME metadata such as subject, by section, by date range or by source.
The Nstein TME is activated when the search function is active, generating various metadata lists that can be used to quickly narrow down the search results based on various criteria. To use TME metadata to filter a results list, select one or more checkboxes in any of the following to filter your search results list:
This list displays concepts that the NconceptExtractor text mining module has pinpointed.
This list displays people names, geographic locations, and organization names that the Nfinder text mining module has pinpointed.
This list displays subjects that the Ncategorizer text mining module has pinpointed.
To filter search results by section, expand the Sections list and select a section. The search results will be filtered to show only content belonging to the selected section.
To filter search results by content type, expand the Asset types list and select a content type. The search results will be filtered to show only content belonging to the selected class.
To filter search results by date range, expand the Date range list and select the modification dates you are seeking. The search results will be filtered to show only content modified in the selected date range.
Important: The date ranges provided by WCM are based on the system date registered when users modify content, not on the configured publication dates for the content.
To filter by source, expand the Sources list, and select one or more of the sources displayed.
The source for a content object is configured in the Properties page. If no sources have been configured for the WCM content, the Sources heading will not contain any options.
After doing a search, select Save current search in the search results panel. In the popup window that appears:
enter a descriptive name for the search.
enter a description for the search.
To have your saved search displayed on your home page dashboard, select the checkbox
To run a saved search, select the search you want to run under My saved searches.
To delete a saved search, click the red bar beside its name. The saved search is immediately deleted.
Bins are WCM system objects that provide a means for users to set aside content for easy access later on. For example, suppose a journalist is researching schools for Inuit children. The journalist could perform a search for articles and content dealing with this topic, and place them in a bin so that they are readily accessible each time the journalist logs into WCM.
After doing a search, select Create bin to open the Create bin window:
Enter a descriptive name for the bin.
Enter a description for the bin.
To add content to the bin:
Select content objects from your Step 1 search results list;
Select your bin;
Click Add to selected bin.
To delete content from a bin:
Select a bin by clicking it's title;
To remove a content object in the bin, click the red bar beside its title. The content object will be immediately removed from the bin. (No confirmation will be displayed.)
Click Create empty bin to create a new bin.
Click Edit selected bin to modify the current bin's description.
Click Remove selected bin to delete the bin.
Click Remove all bins to delete all bins.