Defining Channels

You can create a new channel by clicking on the button New on the view page of a channel or in the Channels section. The Content Management Server displays the Configuration Management – Channels – Create form:

Using this form the following channel properties can be defined.

Name

Enter here the name of the channel. By means of periods in the name, channel hierarchies can be formed. For example, the channel weather.europe.france is contained in the channel weather.europe which in turn is contained in the channel weather.

Title

Please enter in this entry field the title of the new channel in the language you configured in your personal preferences. Please note that the title of a channel can have a maximum length of 250 characters including all character transformations (from, for example, ANSI to UTF-8).

If your Content Management Server is set up for multiple language use, you can switch to Configuration Management – Channels – Edit – Multilingual Titles form by clicking on the Other Languages button:

Enter here the titles in the respective foreign languages in the corresponding fields. Please confirm your input with OK. The title the Content Management Server displays in the HTML user interface depends on the language the user has configured in his or her personal preferences. If there is no title in the language the user has set, the name of the channel is displayed as the channel title.

Click on OK to conclude the channel definition. The Content Management Server then displays the view page of the channel.