Articles are the core content type in OmniCon. Every channel is backed by an article table — news posts, blog entries, help pages like this one, even landing pages are all stored as articles with different flags. This section explains how to create them, organize them, and control when they're visible.
What's in this section
- Creating an article — the editor, required fields, how to save and publish.
- Permalinks and URLs — how your article's public URL is built and why the permalink matters.
- Tags and folders — two complementary ways to organize content and help readers find it.
- Publish windows and scheduling — publish now, publish later, or take something down on a date.
- Search and discoverability — how Azure Search indexes your articles and what Searchable actually controls.
Key concepts in 30 seconds
- An article always belongs to exactly one channel. Move it by copying.
- An article has a permalink (the URL slug), a culture (language), and a publish window (a date range).
- Only published articles — ones inside their publish window and not archived — appear on public pages.
- Tags are a flat, comma-separated list. Folders are a single hierarchical path. You can use both.
- Searchable controls whether the article is indexed by Azure Search. Turning it off hides the article from the search box and from tag/folder facets, but the article is still reachable by its permalink.
Where articles show up
- On the channel's public page at
/c/{channel}/d/{permalink}— or on your custom domain if the channel has one. - In the channel's article list with keyword search, tag/folder filters, and popular-search sidebar.
- In the platform News and Help sections if the channel is wired to
NewsChannelIdorHelpChannelId— that's how this article got here.
Start with Creating an article if you want the step-by-step, or pick whichever guide above matches what you're trying to do.