News

To request the News feature be activated on a unit website, fill out and submit this form. 

The digital experience program manager will generate a ticket, and a member of the University Communications and Marketing platforms group will activate the feature on the website. 

No, the News Listing Page offers both grid and listing views to provide website visitors with the optimal user experience. 

Content authors can adjust the number of stories listed on a page using pagination controls in the News Listing presentation settings. 

Yes and no. 

Units can customize which filters are available on the News Listing Page from the list of available filters. Additional filters cannot be added because creating or modifying categories requires custom development. If a unit has a need for a new filter category, contact University Communications and Marketing to discuss your use case. There may be unit expense related to the custom development of additional category filters. University Communications and Marketing will discuss options with the unit prior to moving forward with any work that may lead to expenses. 

Units can customize the options listed under Story Topics, Story Types and Backend Tags. Story Topics and Story Types can be used as filters, while Backend Tags can inform search results but cannot be used as filters. University Communications and Marketing has provided a recommended set of Story Topics and Story Types to help units get started. See “News Taxonomy” for instructions and additional information. 

The filters are contextual and additive. Options will only appear in the drop-downs if there is story content tagged that matches the applied filters. If multiple filters are in use, the available options in the second (or third, etc.) filters will automatically update to contain only what is available in content on the site that already meets the other applied active filters. 

No, these components are optional. If an author does not add content to these sections they will not display in the published page, even though the Summary placeholder will be visible in Page Builder.  

This typically occurs when “Hidden Items” and “Buckets” are not selected to display in Content Editor. 

In Content Editor:

1. Click the View tab on the navigation ribbon.
2. Check Hidden Items and Buckets.
3. Items should now be visible in the Content Tree.

If you’re still experiencing issues, email University Communications and Marketing to generate a support ticket. Include the website URL and details regarding the news items you’re expecting to see. 

Story Pages are automatically bucketed by year and month, based on the date field set on the page. When a content author creates a page, it will be bucketed with the date of the Story Page’s creation. If the author changes the Date field in the Story Information section of Content Editor, the page will move to that date’s corresponding bucket. 

Not currently. This is an enhancement that University Communications and Marketing hopes to add in the future. It is on the development roadmap. For now, users can set a timeframe for when a story is “publishable” to ensure it isn’t accidentally published too early, but the news item must be manually published during the “publishable” window. 

See “Publish a Page” for instructions.