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Description	The “News article” content type encompasses press releases, student information, research news and news about collaborations. News articles are displayed based on organisational affiliation and subject area. This content type can be created by both web editors and content editors.

Do as follows:

To create a news article, switch to the “Content” tab in the top left.
Click the “News article” link.
Click the “+ Add news article” button.
Language
Swedish is the default language version, although you can also choose to create an English version of your page first by selecting “English” from the drop-down list in the “Language” field.
Heading
Enter the news article heading in the “Heading” field (required).
Introduction
Write an introduction, a shorter summary of the news article, in the “Introduction” field (required). Feel free to copy the introduction from the body text of the news article.
Body text
Add the complete body copy to the “Body text” field. You can also add subheadings, links, lists, images, video clips and tables. Feel free to format the text to make the page easier to read.
Category
Under “Category”, choose one or more categories applicable to your news article (required).
Header image/video
The “Header image/video” tab allows you to add a header image or a header video at the top of the page.Video cover
Add an image to be used as a cover image for the video before it’s played in the “Video cover” field (required). Click the grey “Open image library” button. See the instructions under 8a.
1. Header image
  Click the grey “Open image library” button.
  1. You can now choose one of the links: “Space image” (pre-selected), “Shared image library” or “Upload new image”.
  2. Select image
    To select a previously uploaded image, click the image (green checkmark) and then the blue “Select image” button in the lower left.
  3. Alt text and Image text
    Once you’ve chosen an image, you need to complete the “Alt text” field (required) and the image text for the image in the “Image text” field. Images which are purely decorative or carry no information are not, however, to have an alt text, so enter <none> in the text field.
2. Header video
  Click the grey “Add Video” button. If you’ve added both a header image and a header video, the video will be shown.
  1. Title
    Enter the video title in the “Title” field (required).
  2. Video URL
    Paste a link from, for example, YouTube, Vimeo or GU Play in the “Video URL” field (required).
  3. Video length
    Enter the length of the video in the “Video length” field (required).
  4. Video cover
    Add an image to be used as a cover image for the video before it’s played in the “Video cover” field (required). Click the grey “Open image library” button. See the instructions under 8a
  5. Create video
    Click the grey “Create video” button to save the settings or “Cancel” to return to the main tabs.
Blurb settings
The “Promo settings” tab enables you to upload an alternative image for the promo, which is shown instead of the header image. If you have a header video on the page and you upload an image here, this image will be used in the promo (otherwise the promo will use a background colour).
1. Blurb image
  Click “Promo image” to upload an alternative image for the promo, which is to be shown instead of the header image. If you have a header video on the page and you upload an image here, this image will be used in the promo (otherwise the promo will use a background colour).
  Click the grey “Open image library” button. See the instructions under 8a.
2. Blurb heading
  To ensure that the news article looks good when you create a promo for it, enter a shorter heading in the “Promo heading” field.
3. Blurb introduction
  When a news article is used in a promo, the normal introduction is used. This is often long, so it’s cut short by the system and followed by an ellipsis (…). Here you can enter a shorter introduction in the “Promo introduction” field that will be used in the promo.
Fact box
The “Fact box” field allows you to add facts which aren’t part of the news article and these are then shown under the article.
1. Enter the heading in the “Heading” field.
2. Enter the text in the editor’s “Facts” field.
Documents
To add a document, click the grey “Add document” button in the “Documents” field.
1. You can now choose one of the links: “Browse existing documents” (pre-selected) or “Upload new document”.
2. To select a previously uploaded document, check the checkbox to the left of the document and then the blue “Select document” button in the lower left.
Related content
The “Related content” tab allows you to add up to 5 promos to help visitors to find information related to the news article.
1. Click the grey “Add promo” button to add related content.
2. In the next window, specify whether the promo is internal or external.
  1. Internal blurb
    1. Link
      On the “Link” tab (required), you can search for the content to be linked from the promo. The promo will be created automatically using the title, introduction and image of the linked content.
    2. Modify
      If you want to use another title and/or introduction than those used by the linked page:
      1. Promo title
        Enter a heading in the “Promo title” field.
      2. Promo summary
        Enter a short summary in the “Promo summary” field.
      3. Promo image
        Add an image to be displayed in the promo by clicking the grey “Open image library” button. See the instructions under 9a.
    3. Exit by clicking the “Save promo” button.
  2. External blurb
    1. Title
      Use the “Title” field to enter the promo title (required).
    2. Label/Category
      Optional fields currently with no function.
    3. Link
      Enter the link to the promo in the “Link” field (required).
    4. Introduction
      Write an introduction, a shorter summary, in the “Introduction” field.
    5. Promo image
      Add an image to be displayed in the promo by clicking the grey “Open image library” button. See the instructions under 9a.
By default, the page is set to “Draft” and isn’t published.
1. To publish the page, select “Published” from the “Save as” drop-down list and click “Save”.
2. If you want to preview the page before publishing it, you can save it as a “Draft”. To save a draft of the page, select “Draft” from the “Save as” drop-down list and click “Save”.
3. Once the page is published, you can change the page status to “Unpublished”.

All news can be found via the University of Gothenburg's news page

All news falls under gu.se which becomes the large archive and the niche search. But if you post the News list component on the surface's home page and click on the pink link you will get a list result that shows all the news from just the surface you came from. The web sites thus have no local news archive in the future.

Linking others' news

When the News List component is added to a page, the news of your own area will automatically be added to the list. If you want to bring news from other surfaces, go to Content and the Discover tab. There you filter on these content types. Click the arrow when editing and select Subscribe. More detailed instruction

Page settings

The right block contains information about when the page was published, its author and its menu settings.

Page information (this field cannot be modified)
1. Last saved: when the page was last saved
2. Author: the user’s x account
3. Version management log: here you can describe changes made to the page and these will be shown under version management.
Slug settings
1. The last part of the URL is retrieved automatically from the page title, although this can be changed manually in the “Slug” field. It’s important to keep this short, understandable and unique.
Author information
1. Published by
  These details are added by default when the page is created, although if you want to change the author you can do so in the “Published by” field.
2. Published
  Created by default (date/time) when the page is first created. If for any reason you want to use an earlier date, you can do so in the “Published” field.

Troubleshooting

When I add a news roll, the university's central news is displayed. Can I change it?
No, there is nothing you can change. When you add the news list component, it is set by default to display the central news if your web exchange does not have your own news yet. This is because if the component had been empty, it would not have appeared. As soon as you start creating your own news, they will appear in the list instead.

When I change the number of news to be shown in the news list, the university's central news is displayed. What has happened?
This occurs when you change the number of news items to display under the Layout tab. When you go to the View tab you will see that your news is still there and you go back to the Layout tab and your news is there again. Thus, the central news is only temporarily displayed under the Layout tab when changing the number of news items.