Creating an article takes a minute. Open the channel, click New Article, fill in a title and some body text, pick a publish date, and save. Everything else has sensible defaults you can come back to later.
Step by step
- From the channel's top page in the dashboard, click Articles in the left nav, then New Article.
- Enter a Title. This becomes the page's H1 and the browser tab text.
- Enter body Text. HTML is allowed by default — paste rich content from your editor of choice.
- (Optional) Add a Main Image URL. It's used as the card thumbnail in listings.
- (Optional) Set the Permalink. Auto-derived from the title if you leave it blank. See Permalinks and URLs for the full story.
- Pick a Publish Date. Defaults to now. Set it in the future to schedule. See Publish windows for details.
- Click Save.
Required vs. optional
The only truly required fields are:
- Title
- Culture (defaults to the channel default — usually English)
- Publish Date (defaults to now)
Everything else — description, tags, folders, author, canonical URL, main image — is optional. A bare-minimum article with just a title will render fine on the public site.
Draft vs. published
OmniCon doesn't have an explicit "draft" state. The publish date is the draft control:
- Set Publish Date to a time in the future → the article is saved but invisible to the public until that date rolls around.
- Set it to now → it's live immediately.
- Uncheck Is Searchable if you want the article reachable only by direct link — see Search and discoverability.
Editing later
Open the article from the channel's Articles list and change anything you need. Updates are live as soon as you save. There's no versioning UI yet, though the article does carry a revision log internally.
Deleting is archive-based — the article stays in storage but drops off the public site. That way you can un-archive later without losing the permalink history.