Fast Track to FarCry Contributor

Overview

Each unit introduces a new concept with a demonstration, followed by a walk-through and finally a lab for students to complete on their own to reinforce the concept. The course is usually conducted over a 1 day period.

Objectives

By the end of the course students should be able to:

• Navigate around FarCry and understand the various sections
• Manage their site using the site tree
• Understand and use the FarCry workflow
• Preview the site
• Manage dynamic content (e.g. news items and events)

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with the Windows operating system
• Familiarity with basic web terminology

Topics

• Introduction to FarCry CMS (content management, where does FarCry fit in, overview, site, content, admin, reporting, security)
• Site Tree (overview of site tree, creating new content, content locking)
• Workflow (FarCry workflow, requesting approval, approving multiple content items, editing approved content)
• Media Library (adding an image to an HTML page, file library, media library, inserting images from the image library)
• Dynamic Content (category management, create news content, create event content)
• Containers & Publishing Rules (containers, design mode, publishing rules, publishing news content)