Creating a news item

1. On News page perform one of the following:
   • If you have not created any news, the system displays the following in the center of the screen:

     

     NOTE: If you are working in multilingual mode, the first news item you create is in the default language.

   • If you have already created one or more news, the system displays a list all created news and the following button in the toolbar of News page:

     

     NOTE: If you are working in multilingual mode, before creating a news item, you must first choose the language in which you want to create the news item. Select the language from Languages dropdown box in the right of the page.

   • For more information about different languages, see Managing languages.
2. Click Create a news item.
   The Create a news item page appears.
3. In the Title input field, enter the name of the news.
4. In the text editor enter the news itself.
   For more information, see Using the text editor.
5. In Summary input field, you can enter a summery for the news.
   To do this, click Click to add Summary.
6. You can classify your news using the Categories and tags section.
   For more information, see Adding categories and tags to a content item.
   Classifying content helps you organize it. For more information about classifications, see Classifying your content.
7. To provide additional information about the author and the source of the news, click Additional info.
   In the input fields that appear, enter the author and/or the source.
   
8. By clicking More options, you can change the following:
• The automatically generated URL of the news.
  To change it, click Change and enter a new URL name.
• Allow or forbid comments.
  To allow or forbid users to leave comments about the news, select or deselect the Allow comments checkbox.
• Configure multiple URLs for the news item
  1. To configure a news item to have more than one URL, select Allow multiple URLs for this item... checkbox.
  2. In the input box, enter the additional URLs that you want this news items to have.
     Enter one URL per line.
  3. If you want all the URLs that you have entered to point to the default URL of the news, select All additional URLs redirect to the default one checkbox.
     If you uncheck the checkbox, each URL will display the news item without redirecting.
9. If you have added any custom fields for news items, all created fields appear after the More actions section.
   Using custom fields, you can, for example, add a custom field Breaking news to the news.

   IMPORTANT: Some of the above fields may not be displayed when you create a news item, because they have been hidden.

   For more information about creating custom fields and hiding default fields, see Adding custom fields to content items.

10. When you are finished creating the news item, you must set its status, using the buttons on top and at the bottom of the news item. For more information, see Setting the status of a new page or content item.

    NOTE: While creating your news, you can use the Preview button to see a preview of the news and its properties.