Creating News Articles

News articles are a great way to get important information and news out to your site's users and patrons.

Users with the Contributor, Editor, Moderator, or Administrator role can all create news articles.

Considerations

Before creating new articles consider how your users/patrons will be interacting with this information. Site labels can be updated to ensure field names and other terminology matches what your users/patrons expect to see. News articles can also be filtered/grouped using the Topic and Type filter vocabulary fields, consider creating or editing these list values before creating new listings.  

Filter vocabularies and site labels are discussed in more detail in the Considerations for Creating Content article, but it should be noted that administrators can quickly access the filter vocabularies and site labels specific to just the news articles, from the tabs at the top of the news dashboard.

Creating New Articles

1. From the Dashboard, click the News articles tile
2. Click +Add News Article
3. Complete the fields in the form that opens
   1. Title - add a title for the article, this will be visible to users
   2. Author - add the author of the article, note: this is a text field
   3. Language - select the language for the article
   4. Type - select the appropriate filter vocabulary value (if using)
   5. Topic - select the appropriate filter vocabulary value (if using)
   6. Image
      1. Click Upload/Select File to either select an already uploaded or upload a new image for the article
         1. Tip! See the Recommended Image Sizes article for guidance when uploading/selecting images
   7. Body - add the content of the new article
      1. Tip! See the WYSIWYG editor article for more information on formatting options and field functionality  
   8. File Attachments
      1. Click Upload/Select File to either select an already uploaded or upload a new file to attach to the article
   9. Update the Publishing workflow settings as needed
   10. Click Save