A News content type helps create a hub for communications from the City to residents. The main News hub page can be sorted by type.
News Types:
- Alerts
- Highlights
- News
- Public Notices
- Traffic Updates
Adding News
Once logged in, go to the Drupal Admin toolbar and navigate to Content > Add content > News
Fill in the necessary fields:
- Title: Required For the name of the news item.
- News details
- Dates
- Type(s) (mutli-select checkbox)
- File
- Click Add media button
- Either search by Name in the field on your site or click Choose File in the Add file field to upload a new document
- Clicking Choose file will allow you to upload a document from your desktop
- Select the document you want to upload, and click the Open button
- In the Add or select media window include:
- Name: Required field. This is the name of your document without the file type or without use to dashes for spaces (eg. Test Document, not test-document.pdf)
- Attributes
- Tags - this is an optional way to categorize documents
- Click Save and insert
- Body: The main content of your news item
- Once you have filled out the above fields, select the Publish button at the top of the page.
Editing a Content Type
- To edit a specific node, click on Content in the Drupal toolbar.
- Filter content type dropdown by News.
- Click the Filter button.
- Click edit to the right of your specific item in the Operations column or click the Title of your item and then click the Edit button.
- Make your desired edits.
- Once done, click the Publish button at the top of the page
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