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Create list items

  1. On Lists page perform one of the following:
    • Click Add new list item link under the name of the list.
    • Click the list.
      The list items page appears, displaying one of the following:
      • If you have not created any list items, the system displays the following in the center of the screen:

        create a list item

        NOTE: If you are working in multilingual mode, the first list item you create is in the default language.

      • If you have already created one or more list items, the system displays all created list items and the following button in the toolbar of the page:

        create a list item new

        NOTE: If you are working in multilingual mode, before creating a list item, you must first choose the language in which you want to create the item. Select the language from Languages dropdown box in the right of the page.

      • For more information about different languages, see Administration: Language settings.
  2. Click Create a list item or Create new list item respectively.
    The Create a list item appears.
  3. In the Title input field, enter the title of the list.
  4. In the text editor enter the content of the item itself.
    For more information, see Sitefinity CMS Desktop Experience: Use the text editor.
  5. If you have added any custom fields for the list items, all created fields are displayed after the text editor.
  6. Before you finish creating a list item, you can preview it by clicking the Preview button in the toolbar. 
    The list item opens in its default page. If there is no default page, it means the list item is not displayed anywhere on the site and you cannot preview it.
    To see which the default page for the list item is, expand Pages in the right side. The page on the top of the list is the default page. For more information about viewing and setting default pages, see Locations of content items: Canonical URLs.
  7. When you are finished creating the list item, you must set its status, using the buttons on top and at the bottom of the list item. For more information, see Manage pages and content items in status Published.

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