Section 3.5

The News manager provides you with a database driven tool to easily add, modify or delete “news” to your website. The News manager tool is accessed through the “Content Page” of the administration system website. To modify the page content associated with the public “News” page, simply select the “News” listed in the “page content” section of the Content Manager page.

To add, modify or delete a frequently asked question select the “News” listed within the “database content” section of the Content Manager Page. This opens the window that provides you with access to the News manager tool, as shown below.

All of your existing articles will be listed under the section “News.” To edit or delete an existing article, select the appropriate article and click on the corresponding button (“Edit/ Delete.”) To add a new article, select “Add new record.”

If you are deleting an article, the system will ask that you confirm the deletion of this specific article. To continue to delete select “OK”. If you decide to save the article, select “Cancel”. After completion of either action, you are returned to the News Manager tool window.

If you select to either edit or add a new record, you are provided with a new window. When editing a record, this window reflects the existing information for each article. When adding a new record, this window will be blank. Simply complete the necessary information for each article. When you have completed the necessary information, click the “Create” button to post the article to your website.

You may include images (gif, jpg, png), video (avi, wmv, mpg), audio (wav, midi, wma), flash animation (swf) within the text area that you are composing. To add an image, video or audio place your cursor on the area of the page you want to place it. Select from the toolbar the button entitled “Image, Flash or Media.” Select the asset you wish to insert onto the page, close the window and automatically the asset will be displayed on the page content section. To move the image, video or media, simply drag it to the section of the text area you desire. You can make the text wrap around by using the left or right alignment buttons on the toolbar.

The Category box allows you to group articles by common categories. All categories listed in this box will display as a bold category on the website.  You must complete the “Order Shown” box for each article. To make managing the articles by category, simply assign blocks of 100 to each category. For example, use 1 to 99 for Category 1 and 100 -199 for category 2. This allows you to sort the articles within a category without having to reorder every article.

If you desire to limit the amount of time the article is published on the website, enter the number of days the article is to be viewable in the “Active Days” box. You must then select the “yes” button on the “Auto Removable” line; otherwise the selection will default to “No.”

All of the information for the text for the article is managed through the PCM interface window. You may copy and paste information from other documents into this text area. Refer to the Page Content Manager section for more information.