Creating a Public POT is very easy. You have two options:
  • Create POT: in main menu or in My profile page (displaying the POTs)
  • Clone POT: in POT menu




Create POT 



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Customization (optional)

Add a brand or another signage to your POT. Size is 320x60 pixels (aspect ratio 16:3).


Title (required)

It’s one of the most relevant texts you are going to write. Be concise, go straight to the point. Next steps will give you even more space for text. Maximum 60 characters (including spaces).

Description (optional)

Use it as a subtitle or a short description of the content. You can use up to 80 characters (including spaces).

 

Intro / Invitation (optional)

Show all your passion, add details about the content, invite the community to help you. You can use up to 205 characters (including spaces).

Tags (at least one Tag is mandatory)

Multiple tags separated by comma. Possibly add a Tag for the category (music, history, nature, sport, technology, news, literature, art....). Please remind that Tags help internal and external search engines to find your content.

 

Public – Private 

Private POTs are for your eyes only. Private is available only if you subscribed to a Plan.

Shared – Personal

Select your preferred option. If the POT is Shared it can receive inputs from other users. A Personal one is a POT to be completed only by you.

 

Accept Comments

Select this option if you want to allow Comments.

 

Cover picture (optional but recommended!)

Make your POT more attractive and let the picture represent the content (aspect ratio is 4:3).

 


Click Continue to move on.




The CARd will be displayed. Now you can create the Fields you need to organize your content.



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You can name up to 8 Fields (max 15 characters).

Only named Fields will be used and shown on all the CARds of this POT.


An example: if your POT is about the history of a sports cars brand, we may suggest to use the following Fields: Year - Model - Version - Designer. Content will be added and categorized by year of production and model, version, designer...

We remind you that PicOnTrain will not automatically sort the content according to your Fields. It's all in your hands and you will be able to move the position of the CARds if needed.



Save to confirm the Fields. The POT will be displayed. Check all your inputs (if you notice any mistake you can Edit the POT clicking on Edit in the POT menu).






Now you're ready to upload content.
Open the POT. You will find the first empty CARd ready to receive your content. Open it and Edit.

 





Clone POT


This is a easy and fast alternative if you want to create a new POT.

If browsing PicOnTrain you see a very interesting POT that could fit your requirements you can Clone it.

Click on Clone POT in the POT menu.



You will create an empty POT including the same Fields of the cloned one. It will also mantain the same title. Now you are ready to edit the POT as you like and upload content. Change the name of the Fields if you need to.

To make things even easier and inspire you, we have created the POT Templates STATION.
Here we collect Templates that we consider interesting for you. Templates are empty POTs which Fields are already set and that might be perfect for your content.
Visit the STATION (or search "template") and if you find the right one, clone it!

 



To learn more please read these related topics:

Edit POT
Clone POT
Customize POT
Edit CARd
Field
Edit Fields
Sizes and formats of PicOnTrain

Create Private POT