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Manage the News module

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This task can be undertaken by users with the following roles: OC Site Manager and OC System Administrator.

You can manage settings for the News module from Site Management.

  1. From the main menu, go to More > Site Management > your site > Settings.
  2. Select News Article.
    The News Article tile has a newspaper icon.
  3. Make your changes. (See Settings for the News module below for more information.)
  4. Save your changes.

Settings for the News module

Location of the listing page

Enter the location of your News Listing page in the site tree. If you've chosen to show news on your Homepage, this will be the link used when visitors click to see more news articles.

News categories

Add a new category option in the Enter new category field. You can also delete our preset categories or drag them to change their order in the list.

Your visitors will be able to click the categories on a news page to see all news articles in that category.

Changing categories in News Module settings tab

Note: All OC News Article pages must specify news categories. Deleting a category will remove this information from all OC News Article pages that have been assigned that category. This means that you will need to revisit all pages with this category and assign them a new category.

Authors must comment upon publishing? Select this option to make it mandatory for authors to add a comment about their changes before publishing the page.
Feedback form

Choose how feedback forms are treated:

Disabled: Feedback forms will not show on news pages.

Turn on and show on pages by default: The feedback form will automatically be shown on OC News Article pages, with the option to turn it off.

Turn on but hide on pages by default: The feedback form will not show on OC News Article pages, with the option of turn it on.

Learn more about user feedback.

Form to use for feedback If you have multiple page feedback forms, select which one to use for news pages.

Page discussions

(Community Engagement module – premium)

Choose how page discussions are treated:

Disabled: Page discussions will not show on news pages.

Turn on and use site-wide setting: This is the default status for page discussions in Site Management (More > Site Management > your site > Settings > Page Discussions > Site-wide setting). The 2 settings available are:

Turn on and show on pages by default: Page discussions will automatically be shown on OC News Article pages, with the option to turn it off.

Turn on but hide on pages by default: Page discussions will not show on OC News Article pages, with the option to turn it on.

Learn more about page discussions.

Page subscriptions

(Subscriptions module)

Choose how page subscriptions are treated:

Disabled: Page subscriptions will not show on news pages.

Turn on and use site-wide setting: This is the default status for page subscriptions in Site Management (More > Site Management > your site > Settings Subscriptions > Site-wide setting for pages). The 2 settings available are:

Turn on and show on pages by default: Page subscriptions will automatically be shown on OC News Article pages, with the option to turn it off.

Turn on but hide on pages by default: Page subscriptions will not show on OC News Article pages, with the option to turn it on.

Learn more about Page subscriptions.

Related content

Choose how Related content is treated:

Disabled: Related content will not show on news pages.

Turn on and use site-wide setting: This is the default status for related content in Site Management (More > Site Management > your site > Settings > Related content > Site-wide setting). The 2 settings available are:

Turn on and show on pages by default: Related content will automatically be shown on OC News Article pages, with the option to turn it off.

Turn on but hide on pages by default: Related content will not show on OC News Article pages, with the option to turn it on.

Learn more about Related content.

Show news from other sites

Choose whether you want OC News Article pages from other sites to be shown on listing pages for this site.

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