This documentation is for the Provost Office only. If you are looking to submit items to the Newsnotes, please use the following links:
- Review the documentation on submitting varia (for faculty)
- Submit varia via Salesforce (for faculty)
- Submit an event via MyPostings (for faculty and staff)
Create the Base Information
- In the /provost site within Cascade CMS, click Add Content → Faculty Newsnote
- Page Name: Use the date of your new newsnote for the page name, format as yyyy-mm-dd, i.e. 2019-09-10
- Title: Enter the full date as the title, format as month day, year, i.e. September 10, 2019
- Leave other fields as-is
Add the Newsnote Metadata
- Click on the section "Header" to expand
- Issue Number: Enter the numeric issue number
- Date: Choose the Newsnote issue date from the date picker
- Editor: Type your name as the editor
Create Sections
- Click on the section "Section" to expand
- Type: Select the type of section you are creating. Each section type is explained in detail below.
- Text
- Bio with Photo
- MyPostings Events
- Varia
- Click the plus sign to add new sections. You can add as many as you need.
NOTE: There is no need to add a "Varia" section, it will automatically be added to the end of the Newsnote on publish.
1) "Text" Section Type
- Type: Text
- Title: Name your section
- Content: Add any content or images you'd like in the WYSIWYG editor
- View image upload documentation if needed. Images need to be uploaded into Cascade before they can be embedded into your content.
2) "Bio with Photo" Section Type
- Type: Bio with Photo
- Title: Name your section
- Content: Add any content or images you'd like in the WYSIWYG editor
- Bio with Photo section: click to expand
- Name of Person: Type in the name of the person, followed by their credentials, if desired. This also gets used as the photo alt tag (image description).
- Photo: Navigate to the photo previously uploaded
- Content: Add any content you'd like in the WYSIWYG editor
- Click the plus sign to the right of the "Bio with Photo" section heading to add additional bios to the same section if desired
3) "MyPostings" Section Type
- Type: MyPostings
- Title: Name your section
- Content: Add any content or images you'd like in the WYSIWYG editor. Optional.
- MyPostings Settings:
- Category: Select a category from the list, "Events" is probably going to be the most common for a Newsnote, but you can choose any.
- Show Thumbnail(s)? Changing the toggle to "Yes" shows thumbnails to the left of text, assuming the user added one when creating their post in MyPostings.
- Display Range: If "By Specified Date Range" is selected, enter a start and end date range in the date pickers that appear so Cascade knows which items to auto-pull.
- Limit: Default is 5, but empty the value from the field for unlimited items to show, or replace with another number.
- Department ID: Enter the numeric ID of the department(s) or school(s) you'd like to pull, leave blank to pull in all. Multiple values can be separated by commas (i.e. 86,108).
4) "Varia" Section Type
- Type: Varia
- Title: Name your section
- Things to note:
- Based on the date selected from the date picker in the "Newsnote Metadata" section above, approved varia submissions will automatically pull in if the month and year the faculty chose match your date.
- Items will display in alphabetical order by faculty last name
- The date ranges tell the Newsnote when to start and stop pulling news and events from MyPostings.
- News Start Date: Enter a start date for your news items. This correlates to posts' "post start date", the day they are set to start appearing on websites.
- News End Date: Enter an end date for your news items. This will be the last day in the range and still correlates to posts' "post start date".
- Events Start Date: Enter a start date for your event items. This correlates to the day events are set to take place
- Events End Date: Enter an end date for your event items. This still. correlates to the day events are set to take place
Saving the Newsnote
- Once you are all done, click Preview Draft and submit the page through workflow.