To create a new page in Papyrs, simply click the New Page button, fill in a name and start adding content.

You can start with a blank page and customize each page individually when you create it, or use templates if you often want to make the same kind of additions or changes to certain types of pages. For example, you could create a template with a three-column layout and author details in the sidebar for pages with news, a form page template always starting with a description and a date form field, or perhaps each wiki-like document should contain a table of contents.

Adding templates you can reuse later on works just like creating normal pages. When your template is finished, go to its Page > Page Settings screen, click Show more settings, and then enable the Available as template option. The next time you click the New Page button, you can click select a template to start your new page with the same contents, layout, and settings as that template page.

Today we’re adding an option to the Page Settings screen to mark a page as the default template. When this option is enabled, everyone who can access that template will automatically use it when they click New Page. This way you change what a default new page in Papyrs should look like.

Most pages in Papyrs contain important information, news, links, comments and files you wish to share within your organization. Other useful elements you can add to pages include interactive online form widgets to collect information and process requests.

Adding a form on a page is as simple as adding a picture: in the editor, just drag&drop the form elements on your page. One of the available form widgets is called the Form User widget. It allows people to select someone from your company as part of filling out the form. For example, someone could select their manager when filling out a travel expense reimbursement form:

Sometimes people should only be able to pick from a specific group of users, like Managers in this example. We’ve just added an extra option to the Form User widget which makes this possible: just edit the widget, and select the group filter from the “Allow selection from” option:

Heading widgets are useful to split longer pages up in different sections. Each heading on a page in Papyrs will automatically get its own link, so you can link directly to that particular section.

One way to add links to headings of different sections on your page is to add a Table of Contents. To do this, edit the page, drag a Navigation widget to your page, and select Table of Contents. The Table of Contents will automatically add (and update) links to all headings on your page.

You might also want to add a link from one page to a particular section on another page. To find the hyperlink of the section you want to link to, simply click on its heading. After clicking on a heading, the URL in the address bar will change to the address of the heading, and you can simply copy & paste.

We’ve just updated the design of the Google Calendar widget you can add to your intranet pages to share calendars. The calendar widget now supports calendar and event colors:

We hope you like the update! For more details on adding Google Calendars to your pages, or building custom calendars with forms, see Adding calendars to your intranet.

The people directory displays all the staff members on your Papyrs intranet/wiki site. Groups make it easier to find people, manage their permissions, and share updates with them from the activity stream. We’ve added a new shortcut that makes it easier to (re)assign people to groups. Administrators could do this by clicking on someone in the People Directory, and then selecting Set Groups. It’s now also possible to directly assign people from the Edit Group dialog:

We hope you find it useful. As always, more improvements are on the way. Happy intranetting!