Forrit One CMS Quick Tour

Purpose

This is a quick tutorial designed to demonstrate the common features of Forrit One CMS. To do this we will build a simple page.

This Quick Tour provides a set of instructions that are designed to provide a flow of ‘happy-path’ steps to creating and publishing a page to your website.

For detailed instructions, please go to Forrit One CMS Work Instructions.

Prerequisites

A user exists with permission to manage tasks, pages, components, edit content and create/publish releases.

Tutorial Outcome

At the completion of this tutorial, you will know how to build a page, and be ready to build your own content.

To build a website you will:

Create a task
Build all required components
Create folders & pages
Assign components to that page
Assign a variant
Edit page content
Release your changes to a Staging website

Before you Start

Before you start this tutorial, it is highly recommended that you familiarise yourself with the Forrit One CMS Concepts v3.2 .

It is important to understand concepts such as a Consumer App, Tasks, and Variants.

Create a New Task

Follow the instructions here to create a task.

Create a New Task

Build Components

If you do not have any components built in your CMS, you will need to do this first. If components exist already you may go to the next section titled Create a Variant.

Create a New Component

Create a variant

A variant is required to edit content on a page. If a variant has been created this step can be skipped.

Creating Variants

Add a Page

Create a folder and pages using the Page Tree.

Page Tree

Then build the page by adding components:

Components, Templates, Pages

Add Content to a Page

Finally, set the content in the components from the Page Editor:

Edit Page Content

View Your Page

You can also view your page from the Page Editor.

Publishing Content

Then publish the task to a Staging website:

Publishing a Release