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
- 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: 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.