headerphoto

Home » Support » Online Help » Special Features » Create a News or Library Article

Create a News or Library Article

To create an article:

  1. Click on the icon (or right-click on the title) of the appropriate news or library container in the document tree. Please ask your web developer if you are unsure about which container to use.
  2. Select Create document here.
  3. Enter the Title and Long title. If the full title of the article is not excessively long you can just enter the same text for both fields by copying (Ctrl-C) and pasting (Ctrl-V) from one to the other.
  4. Enter a brief summary of the article in the Summary (introtext) field. (If you don't wish to create a summary then simply copy and paste the first brief paragraph or the first couple of sentences of the article.)
  5. Enter the content of the article as plain text* in the rich text editor (RTE) under Document content.
  6. Format the content as desired.*
  7. In some cases, various flags or category options may appear in the Template variable area (below the RTE). For example, an article might be flagged so that a summary of it is displayed in an article summaries section on the home page, or it may be labelled with one or more categories.
  8. Click on the Save button (located at the top and bottom of the editor pane).

*Note: Do not paste text directly from any formatted text source (e.g., MS Word, email, spreadsheet, etc.). Please refer to the Copy and Paste Formatted Text page to learn how to safely copy and paste text from a rich text document.

Articles created in this manner are automatically displayed in summary form wherever article summaries are configured to appear, such as on the home page, or on a "latest news" or "library" page.