Create and Manage Pages on the Employee App

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Pages serve as enduring resources within the platform, housing vital information and guiding principles for users. They act as repositories for knowledge, policies, and procedures, offering long-term reference materials. Rigorous version control ensures accuracy by tracking changes and updates over time. Use cases range from instructional guides for company tools to HR policies, employee onboarding materials, departmental overviews, historical records, and FAQs.

This article provides Administrators with instructions to create and manage Pages within the Employee App.

What's New

Features released in Appspace 8.7 Cygnus:

  • AI translation capabilities are available for content in Pages and Stories published to the Employee App.
  • Multiple Authors are supported in Pages and Stories, allowing content to be co-authored.
  • The .webp image format is supported and can be embedded in Pages and Stories, including banners.
  • Hide Translations on the Employee App.

Prerequisites

  • An Account Owner, Publisher, or Author user role, with the Premium User license assigned.
  • Enable Artificial Intelligence Generative AI to utilize the AI features for Pages.
  • Supported file formats:
    • Image: .jpg, .png, and .webp (new)
    • Video: .mp4

Create and Configure Pages

  1. Log in to the Employee App Portal.
  2. In the Home screen, click the Plus Sign ( + ) icon, and select Page.

  3. Enter the Page Title of the article, as this will also act as the filename for the article. This is a mandatory field.

  4. Proceed to upload or select an image from the Library for the Page Banner.
  5. Click the Insert menu (+) to start writing or adding content to your article, via the following options from the Page Editor:

    • Ask AI to write (new) – Generate an article with Artificial Intelligence, by simply defining the suggested topic or prompts.

      1. Enter the desired keywords, topic, or AI prompt to help AI generate the Page article.
      2. Once generated, you have the following options:
        • Change Tone – Select the tone of the article to be Confident, Professional, Friendly, or Straightforward from the drop-down menu.
        • Text options – Select the length of the article to Make it Longer, Make it Shorter, or to Simplify it from the drop-down menu.
        • Generate Text – Highlight an existing sentence or body of text, and click the AI icon from the text toolbar to re-generate that part of the text to be replaced, or inserted in the highlighted section.

    • Image – Upload an image to be displayed in the article.
    • Video – Upload or embed a video to be displayed in the article.
    • File – Attach an external file to the article, such as PDFs (.pdf) or Word documents (.docx). (Currently only supports file formats that are compatible with the Appspace Library.)
    • Bulleted list – Add a bulleted list in the article.
    • Numbered list – Add a numbered list in the article.
    • Heading 1, 2, 3 – Add a heading to the article, from a selection of 3 different heading sizes.
    • Select from Library – Add content from the Appspace Library, such as images, videos, and even cards.
    • Link Tiles – Add clickable image tiles to the article, automatically arranged in a tiled layout. (max 9 image tiles)

  6. Once you have completed writing your Page article, click the Settings Gear icon to configure the publishing options and metadata of the Page.
  7. In the Settings panel, proceed to configure the following:

    • Schedule – Schedule the Page to be published immediately, or at a later duration.
      • Immediately (default): Select this option to publish the Page immediately
      • Scheduled: Select this option to publish the Page at a later duration.
        • Set the Start and End duration, and ensure the correct Timezone is used.
    • Featured – Set the Page to be displayed in the Featured Posts section of the Employee App.
      • Not featured (default)
      • Featured until: Select until when the Page is to be featured:
        • Next week
        • Next month
        • Custom date
    • Published to – Publish the Page to the relevant channels or communities.
      • Select the Channels or Communities the Page will be published to from the drop-down menu.
    • (New) Author – The default author is set to you. You can add another person or persons as co-author (s), or assign the page to other people and attribute the content to them.
      • Search and add other authors’ names, or click the ellipsis next to an author and click Remove to remove an author.
    • (New) Translations – Create different language translations for the Page.
      • Click Select Page Language to set the Page’s original language. Click Save.
      • After that, click Add Translations and select to enable the supported languages in the drop-down list. You can either use AI to translate the selected languages or manually translate the content yourself in the editor.  
        • Select Automatically translate with AI to use Artificial Intelligence and click Add to automatically create translations for each language of the page article. This process may take several minutes.
        • To create translations manually for each selected language, deselect Automatically translate with AI and click Add. Proceed to the Page version of each language by clicking the language icon at the top of the page and selecting each language to edit its content individually. Select Clear page to clear the content in the page translation and start fresh, or click X to proceed with the existing content.
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      • After creating the translations, click the ellipsis next to each language to perform one of the following options:
        • Sync with default language – This option appears if the content for this translation (such as banner, text, or file attachments) was altered from the original language version. Select this to revert the translated content to match the original.
        • (New) Hide from Employee App – Hides this translation from being displayed on the Employee App.
        • Set as default language – Set this translation as the Page’s default language. This option is available for translations other than the default.
        • Copy as new page – Copies the content of the translation into a new Page.
        • Preview – Preview this language version to edit the translation content manually.
        • View history – View the history of translations and versioning of the Page. Refer to the History section below.
        • Delete – Removes the language, together with its Page version and translated content.
    • Tags – Add tags to the Page for content organization, searchability, and contextualization.

      • Add tags manually by entering the desired tags in the text field.
      • Utilize Artificial Intelligence to generate tags based on the Page article, by clicking the AI icon.
    • Summary & Caption – Add a summary or caption to help emphasize key points and main takeaways of the Page.

      • (New) Language
        • Select the language version of the article that will be captioned and summarized.
      • Caption
        • Add an caption manually by entering the text within the text field
        • Utilize Artificial Intelligence to generate a caption based on the Page article, by clicking the AI icon.
      • Enable Page Summarization – Insert a summary block at the top of the Page article.
        • Enabled by default, toggle the switch to off to disable summarization.
      • Summary
        • Ada a summary manually by entering the text within the text field.
        • Utilize Artificial Intelligence to generate a summary based on the Page article, by clicking the AI icon.
    • Social – Enable Social Features to enhance social engagement, gather feedback, and encourage user participation.
      • Reactions – Inherited by default, but can be set to On or Off from the drop-down menu.
      • Comments – Inherited by default, but can be set to On or Off from the drop-down menu.
      • Share –  Inherited by default, but can be set to On or Off from the drop-down menu.
    • (New) History – View the history of translations and previously published versions of the Page.
      • You can click the ellipsis next to each version and select Restore this version to overwrite the current changes with the selected (previous) version.
  8. Once completed, click Publish.

Create and Manage Translations of Pages

(New) You can create translations of pages to offer content in multiple languages for international readers. You can also translate pages using AI if the AI Translation setting is enabled in the Administrative Console.

Follow the instructions below to create translations of existing pages.

  1. Log in to the Employee App Portal.
  2. On the top menu, click More and select Explore. On the Explore page, select Pages.
  3. Click the page that you wish to translate. In the Page window, click the ellipsis icon () at the upper right corner and click Edit.
  4. On the Page view, click the language icon at the top of the page. If you have not set the original language for the page, click + Select page language to set the page’s original language. Select the language for the page and click Save.
  5. Click the language icon at the top of the page and click + Add Translations.
  6. In the Add translations window, click Select a language… and click each language that you wish to enable in the drop-down list. You can then either use AI to translate the selected languages or manually translate the content for each language yourself in the editor.
    • Select Automatically translate with AI to use Artificial Intelligence and click Add to automatically create translations for each language of the page article. This process may take several minutes.
    • To create translations manually for each selected language, deselect Automatically translate with AI and click Add. Proceed to the page version of each language by clicking the language icon at the top of the page and selecting each language to edit its content individually. Select Clear page to clear the content in the page translation and start fresh, or click X to proceed with the existing content.
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  7. After creating the translations, click the language icon at the top of the page and click + Manage Translations.
  8. The Translations panel displays the list of language translations. For each language, you can click the ellipsis to perform one of the following options:
    • Sync with default language – This option appears if the content for this translation (such as banner, text, or file attachments) was altered from the original language version. Select this to revert the translated content to match the original.
    • Set as default language – Set this translation as the page’s default language. This option is available for translations other than the default.
    • Copy as new page – Copies the content of the translation into a new page.
    • Preview – Preview this language version to edit the translation content manually.
    • View history – View the history of translations and versioning of the page. You can click the ellipsis next to each saved version and select Restore this version to overwrite the current changes with the selected (previous) version.
    • Delete – Removes the language, together with its page version and translated content.
  9. Click Publish to publish the updated page.