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8. Creating News Items

News Items are one of the main ways of sharing informtion with your Clann Members.  They are also free for everyone to see

    1. Select the News menu option and then the News menu item
    2. Select ‘Create News’

TL/DR

What is It?:  News Edit Form

Appears: Under the News Menu

What’s it for?:  News Items are the free source of information you share with everyone

Field

Type

Details

Sample

 

News Image

File: Image

Overlay Image 900×600

 

The image that appears on the news grid

Title

String

Suitable Title

Welcome

 

Colour

String

Colour Name or Hex value

Blue

This is the title colour

Description

String

Sub title that appears under the title

Welcome to our Clan

 

Upload Extra

File: Doc

PDF, HTML, Markdown, Image

 

 

Link

String URL

URL Link (or Vimeo Playback URL)

 

 

Position

Number

0 …

 

Higher numbers appear first

Published

Date

Select from Date Picker

 

 

Notes:

Make sure the title colour works well with the Image (Title appears as an overlay)

The App will attempt to combine Extra and Link if both are present. i.e. if you have a Vimeo URL in the Link field this will appear above any document (Extra field) when the News Item detail view is displayed. If the Link is not to a Vimeo video then the App will display ‘Click to open online’ (ie to open the actual Link)

Vimeo:

Select the ‘HTTP Live Streaming link’ from Distribution -> Video File Links

This should look like :-

https://player.vimeo.com/external/356354363.m3u8?s=e52b3a32bafa15f8d5e988f3dcefecc3d5296276

Editting a News Item

When your News Item is created you’ll be returned to the News List.  To edit any details of a News Item select the image link under the ‘Image’ column