ADDING
News items can be added by a site admin or site content manager from your specific news page or via any Recent News portlet via the “Add New” button (
).
WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU ADD NEWS ITEMS VIA THE SPECIFIC NEWS PAGE AS IF YOU ADD VIA A PORTLET IT WILL REQUIRE AN EXTRA STEP AND SETTING THE “DISPLAY PAGE” FOR THE ITEM. THE DEFAULT NEWS PAGE ADDS THIS AUTOMATICALLY.
To Add a News Item log into your website and navigate to your news page or a page that has a Recent News portlet and click the “Add New” button. This will open a button labeled “Basic Web Content”. You will then click on that secondary button.
This will open up the “New Web Content” page:
The steps to publishing the news item are as follows:
1 – Check the box for “Autogenerate ID”.
2 – Enter your News Item Name in the “Title” field. This will be the link that is displayed on the portlet and News Page.
3 – Enter any content into the WYSIWYG Editor.
4 – A “News” tag will be entered automatically when you first create the item but you can double check by clicking on the “Categorizations” link and check the “Tags” section. If it is missing you can simply type “news” and press enter or search/select it.
5 – You can also edit the “Abstract”, “Schedule”, and “Related Assets” for the News item like any other Web Content.
6 – Next you will need to set the “Display Page” for the Web Content to be your main News page. THIS IS ONLY NECESSARY WHEN CREATING NEWS ITEMS VIA RECENT NEWS PORTLETS. Click on “Display Page” in the links. Then click on the “Select” button and this will open the “Choose a Display Page” window. You will just navigate through your site hierarchy to locate your main news page and click on it and click “OK”.
Once you click “OK” you will see the Display Page set similar to the following:
7 - Once you're satisfied with your item, select Publish. This will add the new “news” item to your website. And when you click on the item from a “Recent News” portlet you will be taken directly to the item.
EDITING
To edit an existing News item you will login to your website and navigate to your main News page. You can then either click on the link of the item you wish to edit and after it opens click on the “edit” icon:
Or from the list of items click on the “edit” icon to the right of the news item you wish to modify:
This will open up that news item in the standard Web Content page and you can edit like you would any normal page and when you're satisfied with your changes, select Publish. This will update the “news” item to your website with the changes you have made.
DELETING
To delete an existing News item you will login to your website and navigate to your main News page. You can then either click on the link of the item you wish to edit and after it opens click on the “edit” icon:
Or from the list of items click on the “edit” icon to the right of the news item you wish to delete:
This will open up that news item in the standard Web Content page and you will then click on the “View History” button (
) and then click the “check all” button to select all versions (if necessary) of that web content and then click the delete button:
This will remove the “news” item from your website.
**You can also delete particular versions of the web content by clicking on the “Actions” button (
) and clicking Delete.
SITE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Finally, you can actually manage news articles or any piece of content by navigating to the toolbar at the top of the screen and selecting Manage > Site Content. From there, you are able to add, edit, delete content as needed.
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