Content Managment

This page is only viewable by users with special access to the site. You must be logged in with a special access userid. This section explains how to add and edit content on the site.

EMAIL:

To add user to email distributions:

Go to http://www.northwestrebels.com/lists/admin and log in with your admin id
Click on "Users" on right hand menu
Click on "Add a User"
Add a User Screen
Note, you only have to update the following fields
Email: fill in Email address of new user
Is this user confirmed (1/0): put in 1
Subscriber Name: Person Subscribing
Player Name: Subscriber's player
Put a check mark in box next to "Halifax Northwest Member Communications" under Mailing Lists
Click "Save Changes " at bottom of page

To Remove a user from email distributions:
Go to http://www.northwestrebels.com/lists/admin and log in with your admin id
Find the User (Go into Users screen, from menu on right)and enter all or part of the users's email address in "Find a User" field and click Go
Click "Del" link beside the email address you wish to delete
It will then ask you to confirm the deletion

STORIES:

Stories are news items which appear on the home page.
To add a Story:
1. Select "Create Content" under your USERNAME menu (right bottom)then click on Story.
2. Title: add name of story
3. Department: do not use
4. Tags: your must add at least one tag. Tags are words which describe the theme of story e.g. clinic,coaching, practice, etc (if more than one, separate with commas)
5. Body: Add the content of the story/ news item. You can also add any html if you require. Email addresses and url's are automatically formatted as links, no need for http:// or html code to identify it's a link
6. If story is more than a few lines use the "Split summary at cursor" box (top right of body box. Place cursor after a few lines and then click the Split box. This will show the first few lines and then a "Read More", to manage space on the home page.
7. Input format: do not use
8. Book outline: select "News archive"
9. File attachments: do not use
10. URL path: do not use
11. Authored by: no changes
12. Publishing options: check "Publish", check "Promoted to front page", and check "Sticky" (only required if you want it to appear at the top of front page ..stories appear in date (within "Authored By") order, "Create new revision" (not used)
13. click "Preview" to see what it will look like or "Save" to save right away. You must click Save at some point, before going to another url, or your changes will be lost.
14. Review the new story on home page to confirm it looks ok

To edit a Story:
1. Select the url (title) of a published story
2. Select the EDIT tab
3. Make required changes
4. Select Publishing options
5. Preview
6. Save
Review the revised story on home page

To remove a Story:
1. Select the url (title) of a published story
2. Select the EDIT tab
3a. To unpublish (keeps content, but removes from being public) uncheck "Published" and click Save
3b. To completely delete Story, click Delete and confirm delete on next page
3c. To keep a story (so that a search or browse can still find it), but remove it from the home page, uncheck "Promote to Front Page". You should use this option most of the time.
Review that the story is no longer on home page

PAGES:

Pages are the pages which appear under MAIN LINKS and SECONDARY LINKS. Normally you would not have to modify these, however there may be a situation e.g. you need to add some information to the top of the Schedule page.
The process is similar to editing a Story:

To edit a Page:
1. Select the page
2. Select the EDIT tab
3. Only make changes Body section. Do NOT use Split function or change any of the other settings, including Publishing options
4. Preview
6. Save
Review the page has your correct changes.

Other

red underline = possible spelling mistake (right click and it will show spelling options)

Update the Schedule of events Calendar e.g. practice times

To add a message on the Schedule page, edit the page using "Edit a page" instructions above
To add or change events on the calendar (within schedule page)
do the following:
ADD EVENT
1. Click on Schedule under Main Links
2. click on "Login" (separate login from logging onto the Northwest site, but username/password same) located above the Calendar
3. click Add Event
4. fill in information
5. click Add
Check event got added

CHANGE/REMOVE EVENT

1. login
2. click on link of event
3. edit the event (for change)
4. click Submit (for change) or Delete to remove