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What kind of content can I post?
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What kind of content can I post?
As a member of a Plone site, you have been automatically been granted access to add/edit/delete content from your personal folder. Based on the security needs of your group, you may also granted access to other folders in your portal.
The following table lists the basic types of documents that Plone can store. There may be others based on your group’s needs.
Content Type | Description |
Document | The most common type of content added to Plone. It closely resembles a web page. |
News Item | A piece of content that appears under the news tab. For example this could be a press release. |
Link | A hypertext link to another item in Plone or to an external item. |
Image | This content type usually ends with an extension such is: gif, jpg, png, tif or pict. |
Event | An upcoming event, meeting, conference, etc. Appears under the events tab. |
Folder | Similar to a folder on a hard drive, it can contain content. |
Topic | A grouping of other content. Similar to a saved search, in that content of a certain type is grouped together. Topics can only be added by an admin. |
File | A piece of content, can be many different formats. |
Page | Contains text content that is to be formatted by Plone, includes HTML |
Smart Folder | A folder that contains links to the results of a search |
