News Items

As you should have learned by now, this Content Management System offers you a lot of possibilities to create, change and - well - manage content alone or in collaboration with your colleagues from all over the world.

But if you want to point your fellow to some very important new content or to some new information "out there" on the web - how should they learn about it? Well, through a news item pointing them to your new content or the information in general. Of course, every content someone might create here is interesting - so, everyone should be careful in using the news items to not "overflow" the others with lots of small bits of information.

Usually, a news item is like a page with some additional features:

Like an event, you could put it wherever you want on the website and it would still show up in the "News" box on the right - but the appropriate place to store all news and - by doing so - make them visible to others with one click, is the "News" folder, of course.

And like in Events, you should set at least a "expiration" date for your news item, so it can "disappear" once it is not relevant anymore. (It will still be there, but only "hidden" to make place for other, more recent news.)

And again like in Events: Because a news item is not a folder where you could put lots of additional documents in, you should put these additional information into any other place that might seem appropriate and then link to these documents, folder, pages, files etc. from the body text of the news item.