View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1655 | Composr documentation | General / Uncategorised | public | 2014-06-17 10:35 | 2015-09-26 20:20 |
| Reporter | Chris Graham | Assigned To | Chris Graham | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 1655: Adding separate news | ||||
| Description | How to add Specific news categories and add news inside them. To create specific categories, you will have to follow the steps as suggested 1. Login to adminzone using your credentials (if you are an administrator of the site). If you are not getting how to login inside administrator just login to site (Refer pic#a.png) and then look at right top corner of the site (Refer pic#b.png) 2. You need to go to Content management inorder to make categories and news. There are two ways going into the content management i) Click on content management and you will get the dashboard to manage every possible content on the site, and there you will get an option to manage news and categories too (Refer pic#c.png). Now click on 'News' to go inside news dashboard. ii) If you want to move directly inside the News Dashboard, hover your mouse on 'content' menu (at top menu bar) and select 'News' menu from there (Refer pic#d.png) 3. Once you are inside news dashboard, you will get various options to Add, Edit and delete your categories and entries inside those categories. We would like to clear that we are refering 'entries' to the news which you will add inside category. Example : Lets say there is a category named as 'Political news' and we want add few news inside this category. So 'Political news' woul be called as category and 'few news' would be called as entries. 4. Now we are clear about News category and entries, lets make one category and add few entries inside it, then we will learn how to add/publish them on the site (Refer pic#e.png) 4.1.Click on 'Add news category' 4.2.Fill in the required information. 4.3.You can set the permissions too, as to who can see these news. For this click on 'Permission' tab and it will list out the permission which you can set for this specific categories. Setting permissions on this category will be applied on its entries too (Refer pic#f.png) 4.4.Now save this to create a category. 5. Lets add some entries (news) inside this category. 5.1.Click on 'Add an entry' to create news (Refer pic#g.png) 5.2.Fill in the required information. Some facilities which you can use here are 5.1.1.Attachments 5.1.2.Advanced 5.3.News summary : If you want to show some custom summary of the news along with read more option. You can use this editor to put custom text.Recommended option is to leave it blank. 5.4.Feedback and notes: You can set the permission for allowing rating or comments here 5.5.Search engine Optimisations and Tagging: If you are familiar about meta tags and search engine teminology, you can use these options. 5.6.Check preview or save them directly. 6. Now how will you show these news to your site. We need to use 'main_news' block. Suppose i need to make them appear at my home page (Refer pic#h.png) 6.1.Go to Content management again (2nd point) 6.2.Click on Pages (Comcode pages). Once you click on this, you will get all the pages there at your site. 6.3.Select the target language and then select appropriate comcode page to edit (Refer pic#i.png) 6.4.Here you have to options to use 'main_news' block 6.4.1.Check if you have 'main_news' block added in your page (Refer pic#j.png). 6.4.2.You can add new 'main_news' block to your page for this you need to follow these steps 6.4.3.Click on Add dynamic block (Refer pic#k.png). You will find an icon in text editor. 6.4.4.scroll through the list of available blocks and select News block (Refer pic#l.png). 6.4.5.Now you should see the 'main_news' block added there in rich text editor, Double click on it to select category you just created above. 6.4.6.Go to filter and select your newly created category (Refer pic#m.png). 6.4.7.You can either use preview or save it. You are done, go to site and you will get all your news there. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Attach Tags | |||||
| Attached Files | |||||
| Time estimation (hours) | |||||
| Sponsorship open | |||||
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-26 18:29 | Chris Graham | Category | General => General / Uncategorised |
