News | How to add a news article

Publication

You start indicating the publication date for an article within a certain category. News items with a publishing date in the future are labeled as ‘Planned’ in the item overview, with the publish date. At the publishing date, the status changes to ‘Published’ and the news item appears at the top of the news thread. You can also set the end-publishing time by enabling this option and selecting the time and date. 

Category

With the Category menu, you can select the service a news article relates to. Every service in your community can have its own news articles. Corresponding to your role (service), you can publish news articles in a specific category. We also provide an "Information" category for news that relates to all of the community. The news article's category is also displayed as an icon next to the article's title:

New news categories:

• • Just for fun
  • Resident highlights
  • Neighborhood

Image

You can add multiple images to the news article. Either click inside the grey box and select an image file, or drag and drop an image file from your computer into the grey box. Images that are uploaded are published in non-sequential order.

You can optimize the image for various screen resolutions by clicking the most important part of the image. The application highlights this part of the image for every screen resolution.

If you are not happy with the image you selected you can press the button [Remove file] that appears under the image that has been uploaded and add another image.

Images are not a required piece of a news article. It's completely optional.

Title

This is fairly self-explanatory. The "Title" field is where you can enter a title for the article.

It is not required to add a title. 

Content

The content is the essence of the news article you are publishing. You can type the text of the article into this box or copy and paste the text you want to publish from another source.

You can add file attachments to the news items, viewable and downloadable by the users. Supported formats: PDF, XLSX and DOCX

Allow comments

By checking this box you allow residents and other staff to add reactions to your news article. Residents can only delete the comments they have placed themselves. But staff can delete any comment from anyone.

Publish to my digital signage

News articles are daily broadcasted. Publication to digital signage is checked by default (if active in your community). You can select to which screens (select a community channel TV1, TV2 and TV3, … ) this information is published.

• Show a video instead of an image (if applicable)
• Show in full-screen mode
  • When opting for the 'full-screen' mode, you will broadcast an image that occupies the entire digital sign. It's important to know that preceding this full image slide, there will be a standard news article slide. This conventional slide features the article title on the left along with any supplementary content that might have been input, and a regularly sized image on the right side of the screen.
• Duration per image