Displaying Content Sets

Content Sets are primarily displayed through the Asset Publisher. It is currently the only method to display them out of the box, but you can develop your own external applications or widgets to utilize Content Sets. In Creating Content Sets you created two Content Sets. Now display them on a page.

Configuring the Asset Publisher for Content Sets

To display the Content Sets, start with a blank page, and then add the necessary Asset Publishers and configure them to display the Content Sets.

1. Create a new Home page for your site as a Widget Page with a 1 column layout. If you’re using a fresh Liferay DXP bundle, you can just remove the Hello World widget from the sample Home page.

2. Open the Add menu and add two Content Management → Asset Publishers to the page stacked vertically.

3. Click → Configuration for the top Asset Publisher.

4. Under Asset Selection choose Content Set.

Figure 1: The Asset Publisher has a number of options available for selecting its source for content.

5. Open Select Content Set and click Select.

6. Click on the Space Program Images Content Set.

7. Click Save.

Now the images will appear at the top of the page. You can manage the way the content is displayed—like what metadata appears—or even create a Widget Template to style the content, but the items which display and the order in which they appear are determined by the Content Set.

Now configure the bottom Asset Publisher with the other Content Set.

1. Click → Configuration for the bottom Asset Publisher.

2. Under Asset Selection choose Content Set.

3. Open Select Content Set and click Select.

4. Click on the Trending Content Set.

Figure 2: Select the Content Set you want to use.

7. Click Save.

Again, you can manage various display settings, but the items which appear and their order are determined by the Content Set criteria.

Figure 3: You can see the results as the standard Asset Publisher output. You can create Widget Templates to add more style and pizzazz here.

Adding Items to an existing Content Set

To demonstrate both the management of both static and dynamic Content Sets, upload a new image, tag it, and add it to the static set manually.

1. Upload a new image, and under Categorization tag it as trending.

2. Without lifting another finger, the image is added to the top of the Trending Content List.

Figure 4: The result is dynamically added to the Content List wherever it is displayed.

3. To add it to the manual set, go back to Site Administration → Content & Data → Site Builder.

4. Click on Space Program Images or select → Edit next to Space Program Images.

5. Next to Asset Entries click Select → Basic Document.

6. Select the new image and click Add.

7. Navigate back to the Home page to see your image added to the list.

Content Sets are a powerful feature which provide one place to easily define content and other assets to be displayed all over your site. Their reusability also means less repeated work involved in getting great content delivered to your users.