NOTE Any step below containing bolding is required
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.
- 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
- Events
- General Events: select Law: The Docket (Spotlight)
- Regional Events: select Law: Regional Events
- MCLE Events: select Law: MCLE
- General Events: select Law: The Docket (Spotlight)
- News
- Alumni Spotlight: select Law: The Docket (Spotlight)
- General Law News: select Law: The Docket (Law School News)
- Alumni Spotlight: select Law: The Docket (Spotlight)
- All news and event items: select Departmental News and Events
- Audiences
- All news and event items: select Alumni (this does NOT affect what is pulled into the Docket)
- All news and event items: select Alumni (this does NOT affect what is pulled into the Docket)
- Subjects
- Select any subjects appropriate to this post.
- Where to 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
Cascade Server
- 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
- Fill in the issue details
- Type in the title as Month Year (ex. January 2015).
- 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.
- Fill in a start and end date of news you want to pull in. This is based on MyPostings post start date, which means the Docket will pull news in that have a post start date within the provided range.
- Type in the title as Month Year (ex. January 2015).
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.