Contentful's Dashboard Overview
Contentful's Dashboard is the central hub for managing your content. From here, you can access all content templates used to create articles and pages, as well as add new categories, navigation filters, and search filters. The following is a review of it's key features and screens.
You will primarily work in the Content and Media tab views, located in the upper right of the screen. The example below shows the Content tab selected.
The Media tab contains all media assets—such as audio, video files, PDFs, and images—used throughout your content.
You’ll use the Content tab most often when building articles. It lets you find and edit existing articles and pages, or create a new article with its associated pages.
The Content tab contains several preset folders, which you can see in the Views panel in the lower-left corner of the screen.
Each folder is a filtered view of the content stored in Contentful and used in the application. These folders make it easier to find, create, or edit articles and pages, add new categories, and manage search filters.
Most of your initial work will take place in the Articles – The Story and Article Pages folders as you build new articles.
As the application grows, your administrator will create additional Articles folders for each category in the application.
These folder views are already set up for you and typically won’t require any changes.
Here is a list of what each folder’s view allows you to access:
All
This view shows all content models created to date, both published and unpublished, in Contentful.
Status (and subfolders)
This view shows the status of each content model—for example, whether and when it was published or last changed.
Content
Articles – The Story: This view shows all Articles, both published and unpublished. ** This is the best place to build new articles.
Article Pages: This view shows all article pages only, both published and unpublished.
Categories: This view shows all current categories in the application. A good place to add or edit categories.
Nav Filters: This view shows all current second-level navigation filters in the application.
`Example: The top bar buttons with dates in the “The Story” category.
Search Filters: This view shows all search filter options, both published and unpublished. This view shows all article pages only, both published and unpublished.
Each item in this list appears as a search button in the application.
Special Assets:This view shows all media assets, both published and unpublished.
General Configuration
This view lets you find and edit key application settings, including:
Attract screen prompts
Tooltip prompts
Attract background color
EIC and Story Tag icons
App categories
EIC card styles
Error message screens
Add Entry Dropdown Panel
Another key feature you will consistently use do build Articles and pages in Contentfuls' dashboard is the blue Add Entry dropdown panel located in the upper right of the screen.
Use this panel to to create new content items with pre-built templates. You can search for templates by name or scroll through the list to view available options.
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