Curate Content

The Curate function allows you to add content from an existing source, such as a blog or news site. Viewpoint will retrieve the metadata from the article and automatically populate a number of fields along with pulling in an image.

Curating Content

  1. Go to the Admin Menu
  2. Click Content > Curate > Add Content

Create Content Page

  1. Enter the URL you would like to curate
  2. Click Pull - This will then populate the Title, Image and a summary in the WYSIWYG editor.
  3. Use the WYSIWYG to edit the suggested summary - You can use the style toolbar to add styles to your content, such font size, bold, underline etc.

WYSIWYG Editor

Tagging Content

  1. Use the tag multi-select fields to tag your content accordingly - See Tagging for more information about tags

Tag Fields

  1. Change the Author name if required

Content Options

  1. Set the article options: (Some of these may be disabled in your system, speak to your system administrator to get them enabled)
  • Shareable - If enabled, this will allow your subscribers to share this content externally via LinkedIn, Twitter or Email
  • Featured - If enabled, This will add the content to the featured section of the subscriber homepage Remember, the featured section on the homepage only contains the 3 most recent ‘featured’ content
  • Newsletter - If enabled, This will add the content to the next Weekly Newsletter Remember, the newsletter only contains the 8 most recent pieces of content that are ‘Newsletter’ enabled
  • Approved - If an article is marked as approved it will be published immediately, if not an email will be sent to your content approvers
  1. Once complete, click Publish or Submit for Approval - This option will vary dependant on whether the article has been approved See Approval or more information on approving content