Add a photo to the Photo Of The Day area to highlight a story or event, or recognize outstanding contributions from your work force, using the PhotoOfTheDay widget. You can add a caption, print, or email the photo. Use the Workarea to search the Intranet site. Login to create and edit content, such as adding a new department page, and customizing your eIntranet through the CMS400.NET Workarea. Display the activity of people and groups in your eIntranet with whom you have connected using the ei_ActivityStream widget . You can choose the types of information you want to see from your colleagues and groups, such as blogs, comments, micro-messaging status, and so on. Display news and content from outside your organization using the TwitterFeed widget. Keep in touch with what customers and others are saying about your product and services by setting the feed to show Tweets that are related to your company or industry. Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Communicate important dates and events scheduled on the calendar to members of your entire organization using the ei_UpcomingEvents widget. The list of events is ordered from your next upcoming event to later events. Create links to important or often-used content that you want accessible to all people from the home page using the ei_Collection widget and selecting content from the CMS400.NET. See the latest Blog from the CEO on the home page using the RecentBlogPost widget. When the CEO creates a new entry in this blog, this teaser appears on the front page. Display important phone numbers you want accessible to everyone from the home page using the ei_ContentBlock widget. Display news items that affect your organization using the ei_ListSummary widget. In this case, the items are News type content with the newest entry at the top. You can choose to automatically scroll the content. Display announcements to your organization using the ei_ListSummary widget. In this case, the items are text entry type with the newest announcements at the top. You can choose to automatically scroll the content This content block uses the ei_UpcomingEvents widget to show a list of scheduled calendar events. Use this to communicate important dates and events to your employees. Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Use the Workarea to search the Intranet site. Login to create and edit content, such as adding a new department page, and customizing your eIntranet through the CMS400.NET Workarea. This content block uses the ei_ActivityStream widget to show the activity of users and groups inside your eIntranet with whom you have connected. You can choose the types of information you want to see from your colleagues and groups. This content block uses the ei_PhotoOfTheDay widget to display an image file, scaled to fit. Highlight a story or event, and add a caption. People can print and email the posted picture. This content block uses the Twitter Feed widget to show status updates from people you have connected to using Twitter. Use this to stay connected with your customers. Set it to show tweets related to your company and stay informed about what others are saying about your product and services. This content block uses the ei_RecentBlogPost widget to display content entered into a blog. A teaser appears with the first few lines of the blog with a link to the blog page for the whole story. This content block uses the ei_Collection widget to show a list of links to content selected from the CMS400.NET. Create links to important or often-used content. This content block uses the ei_ContentBlock widget to show any content from the CMS400.NET. You also can add ratings for the content, links to Add to Favorites, Email, and Print, and comments submitted by logged-in visitors. This list shows important phone numbers. This content block uses the ei_ListSummary widget to show a list of content. In this case, the type of content is News with the newest entry at the top. You can choose to autmatically scroll the content. This content block uses the ei_ListSummary widget to show a list of content. In this case, the type of content is Announcements sorted in descending order: (Traffic, Pizza, Parking).

Adding Assets to the Intranet

Assets are files that are created outside of CMS400.NET. You can store and manage assets on your Ektron eIntranet site as shown in the following examples.

To add a single asset, do the following:

  1. Find a page that accepts assets; for example, the Company News page of the HR department page.
  2. Click Add Asset (). A dialog box appears.
  3. Click on the File Upload tab.
  4. Click Browse to locate the photo file.
  5. Click Upload.

The following browsers use different methods for uploading assets.

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