North Dakota State University

To use the tt_news application in CMS, your site must be configured in a special way.  If your site did not request to use the news application on the site request form, it must enabled before you will be able to add news articles as described below.

If your site did not originally request to use news but would like to use it now, please contact us and we can enable it for you.  Don't forget to tell us your site name/address!

1. Locate the news articles container under the News page in a folder called Articles
   
2. Right-click the Articles page and select New record
3. In the New record frame, click News
   • If you do not have the option "News," it is because you do not have sufficient permissions to author News or the News application is not installed for your site
4. Complete the news record fields as appropriate
   (learn detailed information about all of the news article fields)
   1. Enter title in the Title field
   2. Enter teaser text in the Subheader field
   3. Enter article body text in the Text field (rich text editor as normal)
5. Save and close the news element, publishing as normal

Shortcut method (this only works if a news record already exists in the news repository you are modifying)

1. Using the Page module, click the Articles page in the Page tree
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page module interface and locate the news list, as shown in the image below (1)
   
   _{1. List of news items in the CMS backend}
3. Click the button
4. Fill the news record fields as normal

To preview (draft) news articles, you should

1. Save and close the news article content record
2. Preview the News page (the page that contains the Articles folder)
3. From the list of news articles in the page preview, click the article you want to preview

By default, the news list displays only on the news page, e.g. www.ndsu.edu/yoursite/news/.  If you want a list of recent articles or headlines to display on the home page,

1. Insert a record from the HTML Objects folder in the Pagetree
   • Records shown in the Border column are provided for use in the Border column
     
     • The News Headlines record will insert a list of five (5) most recent, non-archived, news headlines
     • The Latest News record will insert a list with short previews of the three (3) most recent, non-archived, news headlines
       A preview of this list type (with a content frame) is available on the CMS home page
   • Records in the Normal column are provided for use in the Normal column
     • The Latest News record will insert a list with short previews of the five (5) most recent, non-archived, news headlines

An RSS feed is automatically created.  Learn more about your site's RSS feed.

Next steps

• News fields in detail
• News RSS feed