Creating a Newsnote Issue in Cascade CMS

Create the Base Information

1. In the /provost site within Cascade CMS, navigate to newsnotes → issues.

2. Right click and Copy the 0-template.

3. Go into Edit mode on your copied page.

4. Page Name: Use the date of your new newsnote for the page name, format as yyyy-mm-dd, i.e. 2019-09-10

5. Title: Enter the full date as the title, format as month day, year, i.e. September 10, 2019

6. Leave other fields as-is

Step 2:

Open

Steps 3 - 6:

Open

Add the Newsnote Metadata

1. Click on the section "Header" to expand

2. Issue Number: Enter the numeric issue number

3. Date: Choose the Newsnote issue date from the date picker

4. Editor: Type your name as the editor

Create Sections

1. Click on the section "Section" to expand

2. Type: Select the type of section you are creating. Each section type is explained in detail below.

   1. Text

   2. Bio with Photo

   3. MyPostings Events

3. 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. Type: Text

2. Title: Name your section

3. 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.

1. Type: Bio with Photo

2. Title: Name your section

3. Content: Add any content or images you'd like in the WYSIWYG editor

4. Bio with Photo section: click to expand

   1. 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).

   2. Photo: Navigate to the photo previously uploaded

   3. Content: Add any content you'd like in the WYSIWYG editor

   4. Click the plus  sign to the right of the "Bio with Photo" section heading to add additional bios to the same section if desired

1. Type: MyPostings

2. Title: Name your section

3. Content: Add any content or images you'd like in the WYSIWYG editor. Optional.

4. MyPostings Settings: The date ranges tell the Newsnote when to start and stop pulling news and events from MyPostings.
   
   

   1. 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.

   2. 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".

   3. Events Start Date: Enter a start date for your event items. This correlates to the day events are set to take place

   4. Events End Date: Enter an end date for your event items. This still. correlates to the day events are set to take place