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News Item and RSS

News Goals

  • Establish our validity and credibility
  • Evolve our profile in the region
  • Strengthen internal pride
  • Strengthen relationships amongst the Simon’s Rock community

News Strategy

  • Showcase student success, alumni success, and faculty expertise
  • Express personality
  • Think beyond standard news stories

How to

Update News Grid

  1. Navigate to News Widget
  2. Page Properties (or Source)
  3. When this page is published, home and news are automatically updated.

Update Item Order, Size, and Display

  • There are six displays: three screen sizes each for home and news
  • Control a display by editing the grid layout fields, each display has its own section
  • The interface allows for signficant control and choices, but it also requires a steady review over layout
  • Each number corresponds to the news item below
  • Every row must have the same number of columns as the other rows for that display
    • Different displays can have different numbers of columns
    • Different displays have different optimum amount of columns
  • For Index, always use both rows
  • For News, additional rows are optional
  • Control the size of an item, by repeating it’s number
    • Item can be extended horizontally by repeating it across the row (4 4)
    • Item can be extended vertically by repeating it across columns - in the same row slot
      • 3 4 4 5
        1 4 4 2
    • Items must be rectangular
    • Don’t repeat an item in a non-adjacent spot (i.e. don’t: 4 3 4)
  • Items don’t need to be listed
    • If an item is used for index, it should be listed on all three home displays
    • If an item is used for news, it should be listed on all three news displays
  • Use preview to double check layouts

Edit Item

  • Edit and create up to 14 items
  • Use the eight optional fields to customize the look of the item
  • Use preview to double check layouts

 

News Articles

News and news archive pages are a collection of news articles. The articles are aggreated and listed through RSS feeds.

New News Article

  1. Make new News Article (from template list)
  2. When creating a new News Article, the default RSS feed will populate automatically.
  3. All RSS will display on news archive.
  4. In order to display on News, the RSS feed must be switched.
    1. Go to Properties/Access
    2. Select News-2019
  5. Edit properties/RSS for details that will show up on main news (News Listings) page
    1. For links, use absolute links, not short codes or relative links
  6. Publish individual page, the news page will automatically update with the relevant RSS feed data

Update Feed

If you make edits to the RSS information after initial publication of a News Article, you must then update the RSS feed manually.

  1. Update properties/RSS in the individual News Article page.
  2. Go to /news/index.pcf, properties/RSS.
  3. Click "Rebuild Feed" to publish target.
  4. This will only update the feed attached to this page.

Update Article URL or Folder Location

If you move the News Article to a different folder or change the URL, you must update the RSS Feed. The News Feed link to the article is first set when the article is created. If the article URL changes, then the News Feed will link to the wrong URL. So you must be update the URL in the feed.

  1. In the News Article, go to Properties
  2. Go to RSS
  3. Edit RSS Item
  4. Update link to the new location
  5. If the article is already published, then rebuild feed.