In the new design for College news the edit article link is no longer in the same place.
The edit article link is now at the bottom of the article, underneath the footer:
Archive for the ‘News’ Category
The current situation with new look articles and old look News portlets means you’ll need to create the full range of 9 image sizes to cater for all the possibilities in both.
When uploading an image in a news article, please use the blue arrows in the image crop tool to resize the full set of images.
If you no longer have the original image you can extract it from the CMS using the following steps.
- Open the news article.
- View page source.
- Search for the URL containing the bold part (mainnews) of the URL below:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newseventsimages?p_image_type=mainnews2012&p_image_id=15950 - take the image ID from this URL:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newseventsimages?p_image_type=mainnews2012&p_image_id=15950 - Add this image ID to the end of this URL:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newseventsimages?p_image_type=orig&p_image_id=15950 - Put this URL into a browser and then save the image and upload to the article….
- How do I edit my news article?
- Why is there a completely new way to create a news article?
A newly designed News channel for the College will be rolled out in September as a result of a major review of how news is presented online. Read more about the review project here
Ahead of the launch of the new design, it is necessary to begin to collecting the additional data required for the enhanced news designs so that there are news stories populated in the new News channel design the moment it goes live.
So the revamped News article creation forms are now live and ready to use when you create a new article.
- What about news articles that I created in the old style?
- What will happen to them?
- How to add a news article – Step-by-step instructions
- News article creation FAQs
Information about each field in the news article creation screens
* mandatory information
| *Key information | |
| *Title | The headline of the news article(character limit of 80)
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| *Teaser | Very brief description of the news article – 2-3 enticing words to draw readers in (character limit set at 25, though preference is shorter than 16 characters)
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| *Summary | Short synopsis of the news article (character limit of 150)
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| Image | Select your own image or ignore and a generic image will be used. The image will appear in the article itself, in your main feed of articles and in other listings of news stories across the College website
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| Image alt text | Provide a description of the image. Read by screen readers and only visible when the image is hovered over.
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| Image caption | You can provide a visible description to accompany the image.
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| Authors | Author of the article. Defaults to user who has logged in to publish the story. Can be edited to change the author.
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| Author search | Uses the College Directory to add author details
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| Next | Saves all details and opens the next tab
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| *Categorisation | |
| *Category | The category will reflect the overarching structure of the News site, broadly mapping content to Faculties or the corporate category, ‘College and Campus’. Multiple categories can be selected for cross Faculty stories. This field defaults to the Faculty associated with the user. You should ensure the primary Faculty is at the top of the list of categories as this will affect where the article is displayed on the main College news site.
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| Sub category | The sub category maps stories to departments (options for category to be determined based on selection of category, e.g. Aeronautics can only be selected as a sub category if Engineering is a category). You can select more than one sub category.
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| Story type | The story type organises stories into:
A story cannot be both news and a feature. The default story type is news.
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| Sub story types | Sub story types offer more detail about the format or style of content, e.g. Profile, Award, Video (options for sub story types to be determined based on selection for story type)
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| Tags | Tags offer insight into the overarching content of the story and provide opportunities to group stories by theme. There is no limit to the number of tags that can be used, but a maximum of four is recommended.
Tags that may be used regularly are:
The new functionality will offer any news editor the opportunity to request that a new tag is added to the list – approval will be required from the Communications and Development Division. Tags should not be:
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| Tag search | Look for a tag by typing the name of the tag you want into the search box. Alternatively, you can see all tags and select appropriate tags from the complete listing.
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| Next | Saves all details and opens the next tab
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| Content | |
| Click to add content | Add the main text to your news article. You add your text via the College Content Management System editor.
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| Publish | Publishes your news story – you have reached the end of the compulsory steps and can publish your story now
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| Links | |
| Related College stories | Link another College news story to your article – simply paste in the complete URL of a College news story. Related stories will appear within your article to allow readers to pursue similar content.
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| Related links | Link to another webpage that is relevant to the information in your news article. These will appear within your article.
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| Featured academics | Link a member of College staff to your news article. By adding names of academics here, you will enable the article to be associated with their Professional Web Page (PWP). Completing this section will have no visible impact on your actual news article.
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| Related multimedia | Link published video and audio to your news article – simply paste in the complete URL of content in iMedia. Related multimedia will appear within your article to allow readers to pursue similar content.
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| Media mentions | Link your news article to external web pages. Add the publication date of the media mention and give the link a title.
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| Next | Saves all details and opens the next tab
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| Publish | Publishes your news story at this point.
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| Additional Information | |
| Publish | Defaults to the date the article is created. You can select to publish the news article automatically at a pre-defined date and time.
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| Expires | To remove the news article from your news feed you can set an expiry date (most likely to be used if you are using the News system for announcements that will go out of date).
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| Comments | Select if you would like readers to be able to leave comments on your news article. The default is that comments are not permitted.
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| Moderators | Confirm who will monitor, approve or reject comments. This will default to the individual publishing the article, but it can be amended to direct comments to a colleague. Multiple moderators can be selected.
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| Funders and supporters | Add details of funders of the research featured in the story. The Communications and Development Division are currently collecting data for this section so content may not yet be available here. If you would like to add a funder or supporter, please contact Peter Gillings (p.gillings@imperial.ac.uk).
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| Next | Saves all details and opens the next tab
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| Publish | Publishes your news story
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Some useful information to refer back to:
- If you don’t already have your own news listing you can set up your own news feed
- News article creation FAQs
- News article creation – information about each field
Creating a new News article
In your news listing, click on More news
Click on Add new article
The new article creation form will open.
Key information screen
The first page you will see is the Key information screen. There is mandatory information to complete on this page.
Many CMS sites publish news and announcements. The recommended way to do this is to use the College News & Events application which gives you a simple way to add new articles. It allows you to ‘pull’ news and events from other CMS sites into your news or events feed if you think the article or event would interest your readers. Using this application to publish your news and events also means that other news and events feed owners are able to pull your articles into their feeds and so give them a wider audience!
You can see an example of a news page here. Note that the ‘tabs’ for News and Events below the banner are not part of the News & Events application but have been added by the site editor.
One of the benefits of using the College News & Events application is that you can delegate the ability to post articles to a ‘comms’ group in your department or section who do not need to have full editing permission over your whole site. They also need to know only the basics of site editing as they will not be creating pages manually themselves. The application allows the ‘comms’ person to input information about the required new article which is taken and used to:
- add an item in the News & Events application database containing summary information about the article
- create a new page in the ‘newsandeventspggrp’ page group which contains a content item ready for the ‘comms’ person to edit with the content editor.
If your department/section uses an events booking /administration system, it may be possible to integrate this with the College Events application. However, the basic College Events application is just for advertising events. Contact your Faculty Web Officer, or if non-Faculty put a request into the Service Desk, to enquire about this possibility. Currently, only the Business School has an event administration system integrated with the College Events application.
To try out the News application, follow these steps:
- Create a hidden page in your site called, for example, ‘news’ to display the respective news feed.
- Put a request into the Service Desk for a news feeds to be set up for your site. Include the URLs of the pages you created in step 1.
- The BS Web Support team will set up a news feeds for your site in the ‘newsandeventspggrp’ page group and add them to the pages you created in step 1.
- To add new articles to your news feed
- You can customise the way that the news or events appear on your main News or Events page by clicking on the ‘Edit properties’ link e.g
and setting the required properties in the properties form e.g.
The properties you can change relate to the way the articles are displayed e.g. with or without coloured background, showing the article main picture or not, and which item should be considered the ‘Lead’ article.
Be careful not to change the ‘Assign to feed’ setting or you will pick up news or events for another site rather than yours!
Once you have completed setting properties, click the ‘save’ button to register your changes. If necessary use Clear Cache on your main news or events page to see the effects of the changes to the properties.
