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.

Configuración

To configure the Blog component:

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
Click on "Blog"
Fill the component creation form

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

Table 1. Añadir componente: formulario de blog
Campo	Tipo	Descripción
Nombre	Requerido	What is the title of this component. For instance, "Blogs"
Posición del pedido	Opcional	Add component Which order will it have in relation to the other blogs. Tener un número más bajo significa una prioridad mayor.

Table 2. Add component: Blog form - Global settings
Campo	Tipo	Descripción
Anuncio	Opcional	A general announcement that’ll be visible on the general blogs landing page.
Comentarios habilitados	Opcional	If you want participants to be able to comment on the blog posts.
Longitud máxima de los comentarios	Opcional	The characters limit that participants have when making comments. Deja 0 para el valor predeterminado.

Table 3. Step settings
Campo	Tipo	Descripción
Anuncio	Opcional	A general announcement that’ll be visible on the general blog landing page.
Comentarios bloqueados	Opcional	Si desea habilitar la creación de comentarios para esta fase.
Aprobaciones habilitadas	Opcional	Si desea habilitar los respaldos para esta fase.
Aprobaciones bloqueadas	Opcional	Whether you want to disable adding new endorsements for this phase.

Gestionar mensajes

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

Administrar tabla de postes

Create post as

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

Nuevo formulario de post

Table 4. Nuevo formulario de post
Campo	Tipo	Descripción
Author	Requerido	Participant account or user group that will be the author of the post.
Título	Requerido	¿Cuál es el título de esta entrada.
Cuerpo	Requerido	¿Cuál es la descripción de esta entrada.
Publish time	Opcional	Publication date for the post. If in the future, the post is not published until this date.

Acciones

Table 5. Acciones
Icono	Nombre	Definición
	Editar	Edit form for this post.
	Carpeta	For classifying Attachments.
	Adjuntos	Documents that are related to the post.
	Vista previa	See how it’s shown in the frontend to participants.
	Permisos	Handle the authorizations needed to comment or endorse this specific blog post.
	Eliminar	To delete this post.

Ejemplos

Below, you can find some links to example blog components: