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News

The News Extension enables the display of events and news items on your website.

Important

Creating news articles requires membership in the “news” permission group. Please contact your editor-in-chief to request access.

For more information, please refer to the guide on the permission concept.

Create a news article - step by step

News articles are not created in the Page module, but in the List module:

  1. In the module bar, click "List".
  2. In the page tree, navigate to the "news-system-xx" folder of your website.
  3. Click "Create New Record".
  4. The news article form will open.
  5. Edit the content.
  6. Save.

Fields in the news form

FieldDescription
TypeStandard News, Internal Link, or External Link
HeadlineTitle of the article
TeaserIntroductory text (max. 300 characters, displayed in the news list)
Date & TimeSet automatically, but can be adjusted for sorting purposes
Archive DateOptional end date – after this date, the article is removed from active feeds
Content (RTE)Full article text in the Rich Text Editor

Adding images

  1. In the news article form, switch to the "Media" tab.
  2. Add images by clicking "Add Media File".
  3. Specify whether the image should appear in the List View, the Detail View, or both.

Note

In the List View, only one image is displayed — the first image in the media list.

Complex layouts with content elements

For more sophisticated news articles (e.g., with galleries, videos, or multi-column layouts):

  1. In the news article form, enable the "Content Elements" option.
  2. Create individual content elements (e.g., Text, Image, Video) as building blocks.
  3. These elements are then combined in the Detail View template to form the final article layout.

Categories

With categories, you can organize news articles by topic:

  1. Create categories in the News System Folder.
  2. Assign one or more categories to each article.
  3. Configure the News plugin using category filters.

Filter Mode: "Display articles with selected categories (OR)" – shows all articles that are assigned to at least one of the selected categories.

Configuring the plugin (news display)

The News Plugin controls how news articles are displayed on the website:

  1. Create a plugin content element ("Insert Plugin" → "News").
  2. Under "Template", select the desired layout (6 layouts available).
  3. Configure "Articles per Page" to define the pagination.
  4. Set the "Maximum Number" of articles to be displayed.
  5. Click "Save".

RSS feed

Each news page automatically generates an RSS feed at the following URL: [your-site]/rss.xml

Note

Please contact us to have the RSS feed enabled for your website.

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