Creating New Content Without Logging in

If your community supports it, you can post new content simply by sending an email to the community. This can be especially handy for posting when you can't reach the community using a browser. For example, you can email content from a cell phone that sends email.

Each place in your community -- from spaces to projects to groups, for example -- provides email addresses for the content you can post via email. By sending email to the address corresponding to documents in the place, for example, you can create a document there. Use the email addresses for the specific content you want to post. The subject line of your email will be the document's title, while the email's body will be its content body. Except when it comes to changing your personal update where you only need to fill in the email's subject line because it's such a small post.

To create content with email:

  1. Go to your profile by clicking your name to the top right.
  2. Click Activity if it's not already open.
  3. In the Actions menu to the right, click Create content by email . You won't see this option if your administrator has not activated the ability to create content by email.
  4. select the types of content you want to create. If you select to create your status by email, you'll only need to type your message in the subject line of the email.
  5. Click Download vCards or Email vCards and Adresses to me .
  6. When prompted, save the vCard (.vcf file) to a location on your computer or import them into your address book. This varies depending on how your email program is set up.
  7. Click Done .
  8. In your email or address book program, use the vCard you downloaded to add its email address as a contact. For example, in Microsoft Outlook you can drag the vCard to your Contacts folder. On a Macintosh, you can double-click the vCard to add it to your address book.
  9. In your email application, start a new message you'll send to the address you just added.
  10. In the email's subject, type the title you want your content to have.
  11. In the body of the email, type the main part of the content. If you want to include tags, in the last line of your email type Tags: tag1here tag2here tag3here. This will tag your content so that people can find it more easily later.
  12. Send the email to create the content.