Content Lists and Categories Overview

Note Content lists and categories are currently available through a pilot program. For information on enabling content lists and categories for your organization, contact Salesforce.

Content lists and categories form part of your site’s content. Combined, they integrate with data-bound page elements to let you create pages such as blogs and event lists for your site, and dynamically filter content by category or any other field.

With content lists:

• You can create custom content lists by adding the field types and field properties you need.
• You get in-context editing. There’s no need to leave Site.com Studio to add or update content.
• Contributors can easily create and edit content items in the Content Lists view.
• You explicitly publish updated content lists to the live site, so changes only go live when you want them to.
• You don’t need to set access permissions to allow site visitors to view content, because the content lists are part of the site.
• You don’t have to store relative URLs. Simply access the site’s images and assets directly using rich text fields.

• Creating Content Lists
  Create content lists to store site content such as blogs or articles that you can display dynamically on your site pages.
• Understanding the Content List's Editing View
  When editing a content list, you can add and edit fields, and create and manage records all in one place.
• Editing, Deleting, and Duplicating Content Lists
  In the Content Lists view on the Overview tab, you can manage your site's content lists.
• Adding and Editing Content List Fields
  As a site administrator or designer, you can add fields to a content list and edit field properties to suit your needs.
• Content List Field Types
  These field types are available to you when you create or edit a content list. You can add any combination of fields to a content list.
• Content List Field Properties
  When adding or editing fields in a content list, use the options in the Properties pane to control how the selected field functions.
• Add Records to a Content List
  After you've created a content list and added fields to it, you're ready to add content items.
• Editing, Deleting, and Duplicating Content List Records
  Each content item in a content list is stored as a record that you can edit, delete, and duplicate.
• Importing Records into Content Lists
  Import records from existing press releases, articles, or blogs into your site’s content lists. For example, if you have a blog that’s hosted elsewhere, you can export the blog’s posts and then import the contents to use in your site.
• Content List XML Format
  To import records into a content list in Site.com Studio, you must create an XML file that consists of these elements.
• Sample Content List XML File
  This XML code makes up a sample XML file for importing records into a content list. In this case, the content list has two text fields called Title and Author, and a number field called Rank.
• Create Categories and Terms
  Categories let you create groups of terms that you can use to classify the items in your site's content lists.
• Editing and Deleting Categories and Terms
  In the Categories view on the Overview tab, you can update and delete your site’s categories and the terms they contain.