Creating a news article

Now create a news article on the website.

In the Pages application, return to Edit mode.
Select News in the content tree.
Click New (). The system automatically chooses the News page type (the only type allowed in the News section).
Fill in the news page fields in the editing form:
- News Title: My first news
- Release Date: click Today
- News Summary: Summary text.
- News Text: News text.
Click Save to create the new page.

The news page appears in the content tree (and on the website).

Creating a news page

When editing news pages, you use the Form tab instead of the Page tab. This means you are not editing the content of editable regions, but rather the structured data fields of the given page. The page fields are fully customizable for every page type.

If you switch to Preview mode, you can see the data of the news page displayed on both the News page (list) and News -> My first news page (details).

Viewing the details of the new news page

Page versus form

Pages have two possible types of content:

Content stored in editable regions on the page
Data stored in form fields

The following table compares both approaches:

	Editable regions on the Page	Form
Content structure	Simple content structure.	Complex content structure, typed data, such as text, date-time values, numbers, files etc.
Validation	Only supports basic validation rules for minimum and maximum length.	Customizable validation rules, including regular expressions and custom form controls with custom validation code.
Display	The content is displayed on the page, just like it appears in editing mode.	You need to use listing web parts or controls to display the content using transformations.
Storage	The content of all editable regions is stored in a single XML field in the data of each page.	The content is stored in a separate database table for the given page type. Each field has its own column. The data can be easily modified using SQL queries or the API.
Examples of use	Home page, contact page. Generally: pages with simply structured or unstructured text-based content. The editable regions are usually used for pages of the Page (menu item) type.	News, product specification, event details, job openings, etc. Generally: pages with structured content where you need to separate content from design and keep the content in its original data type. Form-based content is usually used for pages types such as News, Product, Article, Blog.