Style Guide and Best Practices (libguides)

Creating a new guide by using an existing guide as a template has a couple more steps than creating one from scratch, but is just as easy!

1. Get to the create guide screen.
   • ​​From the Home / Dashboard page, click + Create Guide in the LibGuides Shortcuts box.
   • Or go to Content > Guides and click the + Create Guide button at the top of the page.
2. Choose Layout or Reuse:
   • Choose Local Guides (your guides & your coworkers' guides) or Community Guides (searches all LibGuides v2 sites) to narrow your search.
   • Click in the "Select a guide" box and start typing the name of the guide-- "General Guide Template by Sean O'Brien."
     (Or you can add the guide's URL-- http://guides.gccaz.edu/template.)
   • Select the guide from the search results.
   • Reasons why a guide might not appear:
     • Sharing Guide Content is set to No (if an internal guide) or Internal (if Community).
     • The guide's status is not Published or Private (if Community).
     • It's a v1 guide - you cannot copy v1 guides into v2 systems (or vice versa).
3. Start Fresh is selected by default - select Copy content / layout from an existing guide instead.
4. Fill out the rest of the form:
   • Guide Name & Description:
     Remember, keep these short & to the point! *Change from "copy of General Guide Template" and make a specific name following the Guide Naming Standards: 
   • Guide Type:
     Select the type of guide; default is "General Purpose." This aids users in browsing through guides on the public side.
   • Share Guide Content:
     • No: No one can reuse this guide, either in our outside of your system.
     • Internal: Can be reused within your system, but not outside of it.
     • Community: Can be reused in any v2 system.
5. Click Create Guide.