Overview
Blog is an easy way for users to add news / blog / posts to SharePoint. A blog post is a page.
Capabilities & Functionality
- Users can like and comment on Blog posts
- Blog Posts can be written and posted on behalf of another person
- Write Blogs ahead of time and automatically remove them with Publish and Expiry Dates.
- Filter and Categorise Blog Posts to different sections of your SharePoint site.
Work Instructions
Set up Blogs
If you are not already using Blogs, you should be able to add the Blog Web App to your Home Page and add start posting Blogs.
If you have any issues, please raise a support ticket with Sope.
Posting Blogs
A Blog can be added by clicking "Add Article" from the end of the Blog section from the web part (e.g. on the Home Page)
Title - Title of post and is required.
Summary - This is the summary on the Blog (visible on the home page)
Body- This is the body of the article that is only visible when the user clicks on the title of the article from the Blog to see the full blog post.
Category - This is used to categories the blog posts
Image - This is the image is also used in the Blog on the home page and can be added as a URL or uploaded to the post.
Expiry Date - This will remove the article from the home feed
Posted By - You can publish an article on behalf of another user (Management, CEO etc) they will show up in feed as the Posted By in the feed.
Published - You can add a future date and time to put the post up.
Featured - Not required - Can be used to filter posts
Sub Titled- Not required / Not Used
Then Click "Publish" and the post goes straigh up.
The following sections are what is visible in the Blog feed in the web part on the page (Title, Published, Summary, Rollup Image, Posted By)
Limitations
You can not add Web Parts to a Blog Post like you can with a standard Page or New Artical.