This article provides a step-by-step tutorial for editing existing News & Promotion documents as well as adding new News & Promotion documents.
News Document Fields
Let’s start by taking a look at each of the fields that define a News document.
- News Title – A single line of test that describes your news item. The title is used in the link to the full news article and as the page title for the full article.
- Release Date – The date the news item is “release” for public information. This value is not used in any way by the CMS system to determine when to display your news article (see the Publish Dates for that). The release date is simple information for user to help determine the “age” of a news item.
- News Summary – A synopsis of your news article. This value is displayed with the title in the list of news items on your site. The summary should be used as a teaser to help draw the user in to read the full article.
- News Text – The full text of your news article.
- Teaser – This is an optional image that you can load as a icon that is displayed with your news item. Generally this image should be less then 200 x 200 pixels. For best results we recommend keeping all of your teaser images for all news articles a uniform size. This provides the best display results when using the images.
- Publish from/to – you can control the dates/times your news article is displayed on your website. These fields are optional.
- Publish from – your news item will not be published on your public site until after this date and time.
- Publish to - your news item will automatically be unpublished or be removed from the public website on this date and time.
Managing your News & Promotion documents
- Login into Site Manager
- Navigate to News & Promotions using the Site Manager’s main navigation
- A list of all of your site’s News & Promotions will be displayed showing the following information about each item.
- Actions – Allows you to edit or delete the item
- Document Name – The Title of the News & Promotion document
- Published – ‘Yes’ if the item is visible on your public site, ‘No’ if not
- Last modified – The date and time the item was last modified.
- Workflow step – Reserved for future use.
Adding a new News & Promotion item
- To add a new item, click the New Document link in the upper left corner above the list of items.
- Complete the form using the field definitions above
- Set your publish from/to dates if desired
- Click Save to store the article to the database.
Editing an exiting News & Promotion item
- To edit an item, click the Pencil icon in the Action column of the list for the item you wish to edit.
- Edit the news item fields as desired.
- Click the Save link in the upper left corner at any time to save your changed to the database.
- If you want to immediate remove the item from the website your can of course click the Delete link to delete the item or if you prefer to keep the item for future reference simply click the “now” link next to the Publish to field (recommended). Note the item will not be removed until you click the save button.
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