News Article | Case School of Engineering | Case Western Reserve University

About

A news article is a page that will serve as a way to create your recent news. The following image is an example of a news article.

Creating your News

After logging in by visiting engineering.case.edu/user and clicking "Login", you will see a bar on the top of the screen. To create your news article go to this bar and click "Add content" as highlighted in red in the following image.

This will bring you to a page of a list of different types of content you can create, from here select "News Article" which appears like this image:

Click this button to begin creating your news article. Look at the subheadings below for each section.

Title

Here is where you put the title of the news article, it will be displayed at the top of the page such as this article about "Sunniva Collins".

Subsite

Here is where you select the subsite that the news article is relevant to, for example in this picture it's news for the EMAE subsite, so it is selected here. If you do not select your subsite it will NOT show up as news. You will only see the subsites you have access to edit, if your subsite does not show up here please message help@case.edu. Once a subsite is selected, the news article will appear on the main subsite pages that it is attached to.

Once you click add items, you will see a window with a menu of subsites that you have access to. Click the associated subsite and click submit.

Associated Faculty and Staff

Here is where you select any faculty and staff that are relevant to the news article. Here Sunniva Collins is added. The news article will appear on the Faculty or Staff page for the individual if they are associated here.

Once you click add add items, you will see a menu of faculty and staff. Choose the staff associated with the article and click submit.

Teaser

This is the information that will show up if the news is displayed in a list somewhere on your subsite, it should be a brief description of the news content. This should contain no HTML.

Body

Here is where the main content of the article will go, whenever you click "add another element" it will create a piece of body content depending on what the dropdown is selected as. This page, for example, is a piece of "Text Content", which is a normal text editor. The different content types are explained in the list below. You can have as many pieces of content as you wish on the article, simply continue clicking "add another element" for more sections.

This page describes how to use this text editor

Content List

This is an automatically generated list of everything that falls under a certain type of content, most useful for things like events, news, and faculty. Please contact help@case.edu if the information you need is not in this list, and ask for School of Engineering Web Support.

Primary Image

Here is where the primary image for the news is selected, such as this image of Sunniva Collins. This image will automatically resize itself according to where it is being displayed.

Sidebar Content

Here is where you add content to the sidebar of the screen, which is the same exact format as in the "Body", but it will be displayed on the right sidebar of the page, underneath the navigation bar.

For help on how to add content, please refer to the following links:

Content List

Promo Content

Click here to learn about Promo Content

Text Content

Click here to learn about Text Content

Testimonial

Click here to learn about Testimonials

Number Callout

Click here to learn about Number Callouts

Research Thrusts

Here you can add any research thrusts if there are any associated with the news. Research Thrusts are the research priorities for the department or the entire school of Engineering. Please consult with the Department Chair if you have a question about whether or not a research thrust applies to your news story.

Once you click add items, you will see a window with a menu of all departments and their associated research thrust. Scroll down to your specific department and choose a research thrust if any apply. Then click submit.

Revisions

Upon making any changes to your page, you should create a new revision so that you can back to a previous state if you need to. This can be done by selecting the following options and entering what changes were made in the current revision.

In order to access your old revisions, simply click the tab at the top of the page editor, which will bring up options to revert to that old revision, or to delete revisions.

This is an example of the revisions page. You can select two versions with the checkboxes and click compare and the page will display differences between the two versions.

Finishing the News

Now that the content of the news is complete, navigate to the bottom of the page and click save, and the news will be published. If you do not save, the content will be lost, so saving your work is critically important.