Adding and Editing Documents

Each type of content you can add is distinct, and you can edit and view it in different ways. For this reason, Plone references each type of content differently; for example, you can add images, links, documents, and so on. Out of the box, Plone provides the following content types:

• Document: This is an item that presents some static information to the user. This is the most common type of content added and most closely represents a typical Web page.
• News item: This is a document that's to be shown under the news tab (for example, a press release).
• Link: This is a link to another item, which may be internal or external to another Web site.
• Image: This is an image, such as a .gif or .jpeg file.
• Event: This is an upcoming event, meeting, conference, or other event.
• Folder: This is like a folder on a hard drive; this is a folder for putting content into so that it's easy to find later.
• Topic: This is a grouping of other content. This is essentially a saved search criteria that you can reuse later. Only privileged site users can add topics.
• File: This is another piece of content such as a movie, sound clip, text file, spreadsheet, compressed file, or anything else you'd like to upload.

I'll go through each of these items using the document as an example, showing in detail how to add and edit documents easily and quickly. Using these basic content types, I'll show you how to build a dynamic site through a browser, without doing any programming.

Actually, you have many ways of adding and editing content in a Plone site than just through a Web browser. Access via File Transfer Protocol (FTP), via Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), or via scripts is all possible.