On the intranet, everyone can post messages on the timelines in groups. When you want to broadcast and highlight news, this can be done via a news article. The news can be prominently displayed on the homepage, and the news articles must be created in the CMS by an editor.  

This article contains the following sections:

• Tour of the news module
• Getting started with news
  • Creating a news article
  • Features
    • Scheduling publish and unpublish dates
    • Pinning a news article
    • Sending news notifications for important news articles
  • News segments
    • Creating segment(s)
    • Setting segment(s) in news template
    • Displaying segment(s) in a news widget
  • Customising the news template 
    • Examples of news templates
• FAQ about news

Tour of the news module

Curious how to create a news article, pin it, publish or unpublish it at a later time? Then quickly watch the digital tour.

Getting started with news

Creating a news article

Navigation: > Embrace applications > Portals > Content > News

1. Go to Embrace applications in the left sidebar.
2. Click on Portals.
3. Click on Content in the left sidebar.
4. Click on News in the left column.
5. Click the blue button with the plus icon to create a new news article.
6. Add a news image by clicking the plus icon at Choose an image.
7. Add a title at Add title.
8. Build the news article using the following blocks:
   - Text
   - Image
   - Embed (YouTube, Vimeo, Microsoft Forms or SlideShare)
   - Attachment
   - Conversations (FAQ or form)
9. Add related information in the right column.
   - Summary
   - Authors
   - Tags
10. Click the blue Publish button. Choose Confirm to publish immediately with the current date and time or schedule another date.

Features

Scheduling publish and unpublish dates

Create a news article. The blue Publish button (see also step 10 above) gives the option to set a day and time for publishing/unpublishing the news article.


 

Pinning a news article

1. Go to the overview of all news articles: > Embrace applications > Portals > Content > News.
2. Click on the three dots.
3. Click Pin to pin the news article in the news template. To undo this, you can choose Unpin via the same steps.

 

Sending news notifications for important news articles
 

This functionality is not yet available. Coming soon.

News segments

It is possible to distinguish between types of 'news' articles. Under the main folder News you can create subfolders (=segments). This can be useful when you want to show a news segment on a separate page or in a separate widget, apart from other news articles. 

Example:

You want a separate section for Works Council (OR) news. For this, we create a news segment and all OR news articles are created in this subfolder. Then we have the choice to show OR news either in the news template on the homepage or not, and we have the option to create a separate news widget where only OR news is displayed.

Creating segment(s)

1. Go to the overview of all news articles: > Embrace applications > Portals > Content > News.
2. Click on Segments in the left column.
3. Click the blue button with the plus icon to create a segment.
4. Fill in the fields in the right column:
   - Name of the segment 
   - Title of the segment (can be the same as the name)
   - Content type: News
5. Click Save.
   The segment appears under the 'News' folder in the left column.
    

Setting segment(s) in news template

When using segments, you have the choice whether to display the segment in the news template on the homepage. 

1. Go to > Portals > Suite portals > General dashboard > Home.
2. Click on the news template.
3. Select one or more content segments to be displayed in the block in the right column under Content segments.
4. Click Save.
5. Publish the Portal builder.

Displaying segment(s) in a news widget

When using segments, you can create a news widget to display one or more segments.

1. Go to Embrace applications in the left sidebar.
2. Click on Portals.
3. Click on Widgets in the left sidebar.
4. Click the blue button with the plus icon to create a new widget. You will enter a widget store with all widgets that Embrace offers.
5. Choose the News overview widget.
6. Choose Install.
7. Click on the created News overview widget to edit it. Choose edit via the pencil icon at the top right of the screen or via the three dots.
8. In the right column you can configure the widget as desired. In the first tab
9. Go to the second tab with the i-icon.
10. Select one or more segments to be displayed in the widget under Content segments.
11. Click Apply.

This creates the widget and makes it available in the widget store for end users, so they can place the widget on their homepage themselves. If you want to pin the widget on the homepage, the widget must be created via > Portals > Suite portals > General dashboard > Home. This change in the Portal Builder must be saved and published.

Customising the news template 

We offer various ways to display the news on the dashboard.

1. Go to Embrace applications in the left sidebar.
2. Click on Portals.
3. Select the portal where you want to customise the news template. In most cases, this is called "General Dashboard".
4. Select the widget news hero.
5. A selection menu appears on the right. Under the heading variant you can choose the desired news template 

Examples of news templates

Wide banners 

Banners

List on background

Banner with summary 

FAQ about news

• A created news article is not visible on the intranet
  Some checks we can do: is the article published? Are you using news segments and is the article created under the correct segment? Is the segment correctly set in the news template or in the news widget?
  
   
• Related blocks on the right side
  Related blocks on the right side such as knowledge holders, links and attachments belong to Knowledge articles. For News articles, it is possible to set summary, authors and tags in the news article. You can build the article from, among others, text and attachment blocks. This way you can add hyperlinks and documents to the news article.