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MyPostings
- Log in
- General Information
- Choose a category.
- Enter a title.
- If you want a shorter title to display in the Docket, enter a subtitle. Otherwise the Docket will inherit the main title.
- Choose a department: School of Law.
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- Publish and Expiration Dates
- Choose a publish date: this directly affects which edition of the Docket a news item will appear in.
- Choose an expiration date: this does not affect the Docket.
- Event Information
- Enter an event start date. This directly affects which edition of the Docket an event item will appear in.
- Enter a location.
- Enter all other relevant event information.
- Public Contact Information
- Choose the main contact for this item.
- Filters
- Where to Post
- All news and event items: select Departmental News and Events
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- Events
- General Events: select Law: The Docket (Spotlight)
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- Regional Events: select Law: Regional Events
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- MCLE Events: select Law: MCLE and Audience: Alumni
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- News
- General Law News: select Alumni Spotlight: select Law: The Docket Alumni Spotlight(Spotlight)
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- General Law News: select Law: In the News
- NOTE: also relies on the audience of Alumni being selected
NOTE: Do NOT select Law: the Docket for these items, otherwise they will show up in both news sectionsThe Docket (Law School News)
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- Audiences
- All news and event items: select Alumni (this does NOT affect what is pulled into the Docket)
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- Subjects
- Select any subjects appropriate to this post.
Description- Enter a teaser in the opening paragraph.
- Enter the remaining content in other paragraphs.
- Choose a sponsor if needed
Web Addresses- Enter any relevant web/email addresses
Media- Upload a thumbnail (105 x 90).
- Enter a relevant, short thumbnail description (alt).
- Upload other media if needed.
Notes- Type any special instructions for the approvers if needed.
Submit...
- Log in
- Create a new Docket page
- Go to New -> Alumni -> New Docket
- Cascade will automatically make the parent folder the correct location.
- Give it a system name (file name) in the format of YYYY-MM
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- Fill in the issue details
- Type in the title as Month Year (ex. January 2015).
Image Added - Fill in a start and end date of events you want to pull in. This is based on MyPostings event start dates, which means the Docket will pull events in that have a starting date within the provided range.
Image Added - Fill in a start and end date of news you want to pull in. This is based on MyPostings post start dates.post start date, which means the Docket will pull news in that have a post start date within the provided range.
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- Update the Extra Modules (if needed)
- To add an extra module beyond the two that are auto populated (Career Center and Connect to the USD School of Law), simply click the green plus sign, as demonstrated by the following screenshot.
Image Added - Each module has three high level pieces of info:
- Title
- Link (for the user to learn more information on our website)
- Link text (what you want that link to say)
- Within each module you can have up to 2 rows of content. Each row has:
- Title
- Sub-title
- Image (105x90)
- Image link (if you want it to link to somewhere on the web)
- Image description (alt)
- Content (HTML formatted stuff)
- NOTE: each Docket will default the first two Extra Modules as the following, but you can change any of it as you see fit.
- Career Center
- Connect to the USD School of Law
- Submit
- Click Submit
- The Docket issues are set to auto-publish, so you don't have to wait for any technical or content review like your other web pages.
- To view your new edition on the website, from within Cascade just click on the Live tab when in View mode of your new page. It will provide you with a URL of where your new page lives.
- As soon as you are happy with your new Docket, submit a publish request for http://www.sandiego.edu/law/alumni/publications/docket/index.php via our web form at http://www.sandiego.edu/law/forms/communications/web-request.php. Until your publish request is made, the index page for the Docket will continue to pull in your previous edition.
BlueHornet
- Log in to BlueHornet
- Go to Message -> Create Message
- Fill out the first screen's details as normal. Remember to choose Basic Test Message under Message Type.
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- On this next screen, make sure to apply the Docket template in the WYSIWYG
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- Now go into the Source view within the WYSIWYG
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- Find the row in the source code that says <!-- ### place docket content here ### -->
- In Firefox or Chrome, load your latest Docket that you just published., http://www.sandiego.edu/law/alumni/publications/docket/YYYY-MM.php where YYYY-DD is the current issue you're working on.
- Once your Docket loads, right click on the Upcoming Events heading and choose Inspect Element.
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- Another pane in your browser tab appears. This pane will show you the HTML structure of your page. You'll notice a TR tag that have class="copy-for-bluehornet". This is the rows we'll copy into our BlueHornet Docket template.
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- Copy and paste this TR with class="copy-for-bluehornet".
- You can copy a TR by right clicking on that TR in the Inspect Element window and choosing Copy.
- After copying just switch tabs back to BlueHornet and paste in the appropriate location within the Source view.
- Once copied, click the Source button to see your Docket in design mode to make sure you appropriately pasted in the TR.
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- Switch back to your browser/tab with BlueHornet, then paste the copied TR over the <!-- ### place docket content here ### --> you located earlier.
- Once you are done pasting in your row, go back into Source view, you will need to update the month and year in two locations. Search for 2014 and update it with the current month and year.
- Switch out of Source view, then finish out the Docket settings in BlueHornet then Send, starting with a Basic Test Message until you are satisfied.