Content curation with Glasshouse

Step 1.1 - Creating Topics

Start in the Settings tab in the Navigation panel, and click on the Taxonomy tab. Listed here are all the topics and categories that currently exist, and the option to create new ones.

1. Click on Add new Topic.
2. Enter a name into the Topic name field.
3. Click Save.

Step 1.2 - Creating Categories

Start in the Settings tab in the Navigation panel, and click on the Taxonomy tab.

1. Click on Add new Category.
2. Enter a name into the Title field.
3. Attach an icon for the category in the Icon area (optional).

Step 2 - Creating Resources

Start in the Resources tab in the Navigation panel.

1. Click Add resource.
2. Enter a name into the Resource name field.
3. Select a Category from the CategoryID dropdown menu (setup into Taxonomy).
4. Enter a URL for the resource to link to in the Web address of the resource field (optional).
5. Enter tags into the Tags field. Separate multiple tags with commas.
6. Click on the Topic Selector dropdown menu and select topics to organise the resource into (setup in Taxonomy).
7. Enter the main content of the resource in the Notes content area.
8. Select a file to attach in the Files area (optional)
9. Click Save or Save and Close.

Step 2.2 - Creating Question and Answers

Question and Answers are another type of resource that can be added to a Collection page. Start in the Resources tab in the Navigation panel. Select Question and Answers (to the right of Resources) in the topmost Resources panel.

1. Click on Add Question and Answer.
2. Enter the question into the Question field.
3. Enter the answer into the Answer field.
4. Enter tags into the Tags field. Separate multiple tags with commas.
5. Click on the Topic Selector dropdown menu and select topics to organise the Question and Answer into (setup in Taxonomy).
6. Click Save or Save and Close.

Step 3 - Adding resources to a Collections page

Start in a Collection page, in the Collections tab.

1. Enter tags to display into the Resource tags field.
2. Check the Are all the above tags required on a resource? box if all entered tags must be present on an individual resource for it to display.
3. Click on the Topic dropdown menu to select a topic which will be displayed on the page.
4. Click on the What would you like to show dropdown menu to select either Resource or Question and Answers to display.
5. Click Save and Publish.

Tags are subject tags which can be used to group Resources and Question and Answers. Multiple tags can be used on a single resource. If tags are entered into the Tags field of a Collections page, all resources with that tag will be displayed.

Topics are subjects to organise resources into. A Collection page can display only one topic, one topic and one or more tags, or no topic and one or more tags.

Categories are a further way to automatically sort and organise resources. An example of a category is a Type. Category types could be websites, manuals, handbooks, downloads, media etc.