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. Tip! The 'Save As:' field can be used to set the status of the content for: saving a working draft, for review purposes prior to publishing, or for publishing and un-publishing. Click the drop-down to see the options:
      1. Draft, saves your progress as a working draft that can be further edited when needed
         1. Note: This is the default state for users with the Contributor or Editor role when creating content. Content saved in this state cannot be seen your Stacks site until the status is changed to published
      2. Needs Review, saves the work in its current state and indicates it is ready to be reviewed by others, typically for approving the content prior to publishing
      3. Reviewed, saves the work in it's current state and indicates it has been reviewed and could be set to published
      4. Published, saves the work in it's current state and publishes the content. This makes the content available in the layout builder > news articles block for adding to landing pages, on the /news page, or accessible on your site via the URL alias generated when the content was created
         1. Note: this is the default state for users with the Moderator or Administrator role when creating content
      5. Unpublished, saves the work in it's current state and un-publishes/removes it from wherever it was added to your Stacks site, this can be set back to published at any time to make it accessible again
   10. Update the Publishing workflow settings as needed
   11. Click Save