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Contents 1 Add a new Feature Story Item 1.1 1. Go to the "profiles" folder 1.2 2. Add new TechnologyProfilePage 1.2.1 Title (Required) 1.2.2 Description (Required) 1.2.3 Tagline (Required) 1.2.4 Profile Image (Required) 1.2.5 Image caption (Required) 1.2.6 Benefits (Required) 1.2.7 Breakout quote (Required) 1.2.8 Breakout quote cite (Required) 1.2.9 Body text (Required) 1.2.9.1 Image and caption (Optional) 1.3 3. Save, Save as Draft, and Publish 1.3.1 Save and Save as Draft 1.3.2 Publish 1.3.2.1 Dates 1.3.2.2 Default Profiles Page Display 1.4 5. Check that the new Feature Story is showing up in the correct place(s)

Add a new Feature Story Item

1. Go to the "profiles" folder

Type in the URL https://tlt.its.psu.edu/profiles/ into your browser.

2. Add new TechnologyProfilePage

In the green menu bar, click on the Add new..." link and select TechnologyProfilePage from the drop-down list that appears.

This will present you with a form to fill in.

Keep in mind that the information in the fields will be used to populate the Feature Story are on the Home Page as well as the full article.

The template contains the following fields:

Title (Required)

The Title is what gets shown on the Home Page in the Feature Story box and on the Profile page box.

Make sure it is short enough to fit in the space provided in the box on the Home page.

Remember, what you enter into the Title field is automatically used to generate the URL of the Feature item. If you are considering a title more than 3 or 4 words long, you might want to think about saving the news item with an abbreviated version of the title initially (so that it generates a relatively short URL), then immediately editing it to amend the title to the long version.

Description (Required)

This is an "in-a-nutshell" summary. The Description is critical as it is used by search engines to find and rank the page in search results. You should ensure that the main message of the article is encapsulated in the Description. Also keep in mind that some visitors will only read this summary, and won't bother clicking to the full article. Keep the Description to no more than four or five sentences; if you just want to write one or two sentences, that’s fine. Keep them short and grammatically simple. Note form is fine. Try not to use the passive voice.

Tagline (Required)

This encapsulates the technology. This is for the Home page and Profile page: shown under the Title on the Home Page and shown as the Sub-title on the Profile page.

Profile Image (Required)

Upload an image that will be shown on both the Home page and the Profile page.

The dimensions should be 305 pixels in width by 200 pixels in height.

Image caption (Required)

Will be at and title tag for the image

Benefits (Required)

A bulleted list of the technology's benefits to teaching and learning. This is for the Home page and Profile page.

Enter the list in the WYSIWYG editor using the bulleted list button to format your list or the ul and li tags in HTML view.

You do not need to worry about typing or linking the "Learn more..." link that displays in the box on the Home Page.

NOTE: If you are copying from Word, make sure you paste into the HTML view. Otherwise it will copy all of the Word formatting over (don't do that).

Breakout quote (Required)

This will be displayed in the Profile Page box next to the image and under the Title.

You do not need to type in the quotation marks for the quote.

Breakout quote cite (Required)

This is displayed under the Breakout quote on the Profile page as a cite for the quote.

You DO NOT need to type the dash before the cite.

Body text (Required)

This is the meat of your article. Use it to reiterate the key points from the Description, and expand on them where relevant.

You can write paragraphs and add Images and internal and external Links. I'll be providing more details about which Links to services and sites external to TLT are already added into the architecture of the TLT Plone site. These Links would be added to your body using the Editing Toolbar (Kupu) by clicking on the Chain icon button (should say Internal Link when you hover over it). External Links that are more appropriately defined as external link NOT already added into the TLT site architecture can be added to the Body of your article by simple using the Globe icon button on the Editing Toolbar.

As ever when writing for the web, keep sentences and paragraphs short. Use bullet points, headings and bold font to make the text easily scannable. Use the active tense wherever possible.

Image and caption (Optional)

If you want to include more than the one Profile image, you can upload and insert images into the body of the feature story.

To add a caption for an image in the main body of the article, use the formatting drop-down and choose "Discreet". This will display your image caption as it does in, for example, a News Item.

3. Save, Save as Draft, and Publish

Save and Save as Draft

Note that the new Feature Story won't be Saved unless you've filled in all of the Required form fields. So you could lose all of your work unless you make sure you've filled in the required fields.

Click the Save button, then review the details that are displayed (this is what will be published). When you click Save, your content will be set as Private (aka Draft).

If you would like to make any changes, click on the Edit tab, make necessary changes, then click Save again.

Click the Save button, then review the details that are displayed (this is what will be published).

Once you’re ready for the world to read the item, click on the State drop-down again, and select Publish.

[If you want to continue working on the Feature Story in draft, Save it and immediately click on the State drop-down menu in the green navigation bar and select Retract. This will make the item Private and therefore invisible to everyone except you and a few other people with appropriate permissions.

Publish

Once you’re ready for the world to read the item, click on the State drop-down again, and select Publish.

Dates

When your new Feature Story is ready to go live, you're going to have to Edit the former Feature Story and set the Expiration Date to be Date that your new article is publishing.

Default Profiles Page Display

1. Go to the following URL: https://tlt.its.psu.edu/profiles/folder_contents
2. Click the Display drop-down menu in the green navigation bar.
3. Click "change Content Item as default view" to display and Select the Default Page to be your new Feature article.
4. Click Save.
5. Check the URL: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/profiles/ to make sure the default display shows the latest article.

5. Check that the new Feature Story is showing up in the correct place(s)

Once you have published a News Item, items with the most recent effective dates should appear at the top of News lists and items with older effective dates appear lower down.

Specifically in the following places:

• The Home Page feature box
• click the Learn More link on the Home Page to see if it takes you to the correct article
• visit the URL http://tlt.its.psu.edu/profiles to see if the new article appears as the default page.

If it doesn't show at the top of all these places, double check a few of your settings including:

• Expiration Date under Edit on the TechnologyProfilePage of the former article