Blog

The Blog component allows people to read multiple posts ordered by date.

Some examples of where this component was used:

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Example of blog posts list Example of a blog post

To configure the Blog component:

Sign in as admin
Go to admin panel
In the main sidebar, click in the button for the space that you want to configure the component for. For instance, it could be "Processes", "Assemblies" or "Conferences".
Go to components
Click on "Add component" button
Click on "Blog"
Fill the Add component form

Add component

Add component form

Table 1. Add component: Blog form
Field	Type	Description
Name	Required	What is the title of this component. For instance, "Blogs"
Order position	Optional	Which order will it have in relation to the other blogs. Having a lower number means a higher priority. For instance, if you have two blogs, "Blog a" with weight "10" and "Blog b" with weight "0", then "Blog b" will be first when ordering.

Table 2. Add component: Blog form - Global settings
Field	Type	Description
Announcement	Optional	A general announcement that’ll be visible on the general blogs landing page.
Comments enabled	Optional	Whether you want to have comments in the meetings.
Comments max length	Optional	What is the characters limit that participants will have when making comments. Leave 0 for default value.

In the cases where the space that this component will be used has Phases, for instance, in Participatory Processes, then you can also define different behaviors per Step.

Table 3. Add component: Blogs form - Step settings
Field	Type	Description
Announcement	Optional	A general announcement that’ll 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 disable adding new endorsements for this phase.

Permissions

An administrator can choose which kind of Authorizations a participant need to have to make certain actions in the blogs:

Comment
Endorse

Manage posts

Manage posts table

New post form

Table 4. New post form
Field	Type	Description
Create post as	Required	Participant account or user group that will be the author of the post.
Title	Required	What is the title of this post.
Body	Required	What is the description of this post.

Actions

Table 5. Actions
Icon	Name	Definition
	Edit	Edit form for this post. It’s the same form as "New post".
	Folder	For classifying Attachments.
	Attachments	Documents that are related to the post.
	Permissions	To handle the permissions of this post, depending on the verification a participant has.
	Delete	To delete this post.