Creating a Newsnote Issue in Cascade CMS

Create the Base Information

1. In the /provost site within Cascade CMS, click Add Content → Faculty Newsnote 
2. Page Name: Use the date of your new newsnote for the page name, format as yyyy-mm-dd, i.e. 2019-09-10
3. Title: Enter the full date as the title, format as month day, year, i.e. September 10, 2019
4. Leave other fields as-is

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 further, below.
   1. Text
   2. Bio with Photo
   3. MyPostings Events
   4. Varia
3. Click the plus  sign to add new sections. You can add as many as you need.

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:
   
   1. Category: Select a category from the list, "Events" is probably going to be the most common for a newsnote, but you can choose any.
   2. Show Thumbnail(s)? Changing the toggle to "Yes" shows thumbnails to the left of text, assuming the user added one when creating their post in MyPostings.
   3. Display Range: If "By Specified Date Range" is selected, enter a start and end date range in the date pickers that appear so Cascade knows which items to auto-pull.
   4. Limit: Default is 5, but empty the value from the field for unlimited items to show, or replace with another number.
   5. Department ID: Enter the numeric ID of the department(s) or school(s) you'd like to pull, leave blank to pull in all. Multiple values can be separated by commas (i.e. 86,108).
      • Lookup School/Department IDs

1. Type: Varia
2. Title: Name your section
3. Things to note:
   1. Based on the date selected from the date picker in the "Newsnote Metadata" section above, approved varia submissions will automatically pull in if the month and year the faculty chose match your date.
   2. Items will display in alphabetical order by faculty last name