Library Information Technology

Create News

There are two different News Sources

  • Create in Drupal: Content > Add Content > News
    • Summary: For "In Focus" short description
    • Image also for "In Focus" (Suggest the size of 120x90 to 500x500 pisels)
    • Sub-section: to set which department the news will show
  • Feed from other source through feed function: Content > Add Content > News Feed => Fill in the URL of the external News Feed
    • The default News Importer import the following information: Title, Description (to Body), Published date, Item URL (to External link), Categories (to Feed Category), Sub-section (for different home page)
    • In Focus Admin > select the news that will show to Home page (need to add "Image" and "Summary" fields)

The default url for "News" Content Type is news/yyyy/mm/news-title

There are two major views

  • Structure > Views > In Focus > as "Home Page" In Focus area
  • Structure > Views > News > News page, News Block to display only a short description about the news.

For Library News, there are more settings, see "Library News"