Currently only available for the media centre/news section.
The ‘News page’ template is used to present short or long form content describing a news event. The page consists of text and image content, links to the people, departments and research centres involved, plus any related articles.
The news page template differs from standard Sitecore templates in that it is pre-configured so that all the core components and layout of the page is already set up ready to use.
It is designed to be reusable so that you simply need to copy the template, choose a location and then update with new content. The following guidance will explain this process.
A news page once published will be visible on both of the following pages:
The following page components make up the ‘News page’ template as standard, with no prior component configuration needed. Guidance for each of the components listed below can be found on our components section.
Main content
R45 TextComponent
Image
Related content
Story card list
Story card item
Supporting content
Text Content
Link List Basic
Navigation link
When to use
Use this template when you want to promote a university related news piece for the news/media centre section of the SHU website.
Any news items created can also be promoted on the shu.ac.uk/news ‘Latest news’ navigation block.
Location
The ‘News page’ template can be found within the ‘Shared designs’ folder located in the following Sitecore directory:
The ‘News page’ template is accessible by any user with access to the /News section.
How to use
Create the page
From the Sitecore dashboard open the Content Editor
Navigate to the '/Main site/Home/News/Datasource/Shared designs' folder in the content tree
Locate the ‘News page’ template
Right click on the template
Choose ‘Copying’
Choose ‘Copy To’
Note: Avoid using the 'Duplicate' option.
On the pop up window navigate to the news listing page in the tree: /sitecore/content/Main site/Home/News/All articles/Latest news
Left click and select the ‘Latest news’’
Select the Copy button below
Back on the content tree navigate to the news listing page
You should see your new page titled ‘Copy of News page’
The page and items it contains will all be in draft workflow status ready to edit: /sitecore/content/Main site/Home/News/All articles/Latest news
Right click on the item in the tree and choose ‘Rename’. The words used will form the page URL so try to keep words descriptive, to a minimum and ensure no special characters or numbers are used.
Required fields
Before we add the page content we need to complete several required fields before the page will be publishable.
Select the news page you’ve created in the content tree.
View the content window to the right.
Looking at the ‘Author’ field click the ‘Insert link’ option and navigate to the staff profile in the content tree (Main site/Home/About us/Our people/Staff profiles)
The ‘Content date
Insert a ‘Content Listing Image’.
Enter a ‘ListingSummary’.
Insert a ‘BrowserTitle’
Enter a ‘Metadata description’.
Under the Taxonomy section locate the Semantic box.
Use the folders and arrows to select and move across items within Media Center which correspond to the news article e.g. Architecture, Books and writing.
Insert a Menu Title
Page Title
The Editorial template which is also available in the shared designs folder offers an extra 'Reading Time' field. This can be a useful indicator to a visitor of how long an article is before opening.
Adding page content
Page content can be added in one of two ways:
1) Through the content tree by browsing to the pages data source folder. The content within it is organized by ‘Main content’ and ‘Supporting content’ in line with the structure of our page templates.
2) Open the page in the Experience Editor and update each component in turn by selecting it.
All the page components are saved locally to the page underneath its 'datasource' folder apart from the 'Press contact' component located on the left navigation/supporting content. This is instead a global item located in the following directory.
This is so that we only need to edit the one component location and it will update every article/page that references it.
Any components or navigation links that are not needed can be deleted via the XE from the page. The items will remain in the content tree but not be published.
Publishing
When ready to publish the news article page follow the publishing order process. Note that you will have two extra folders to publish compared to a standard Sitecore page, a 'Main content' folder and a 'Supporting content' folder. The same top to bottom publishing order will apply.
