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
- Regional Events: select Law: Regional Events
- MCLE Events: select Law: MCLE
- News
- General Law News: select Law: The Docket
- Alumni Spotlight: 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 sections
- Audiences
- All news and event items: select Alumni
- 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.
- Fill in a start and end date of news you want to pull in. This is based on MyPostings post start dates.
- Update the Extra Modules (if needed)
- 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
- Each module has three high level pieces of info:
- 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.