News in shows up in 3 places in the user interface:

• Dashboard news portlet
• News magazine
• News app

Dashboard news portlet

As a user, when you open the dashboard page you’re greeted with a short news listing. The listing is expandable.

News magazine

The main entry point to consume news is the news magazine, which is accessible via the sidewide top level navigation.

The magazine main column opens with a big leader item, and then continues with less prominent news items and a long list of items. From top to bottom and left to right, the sequence of items shown is determined by effective date i.e. the publication date, with the most recently published news item on top.

The right column shows a list of trending news items. For each news item, the system keeps track of when each user first read that item. The trending column shows those items that have been read for the first time, by most users, in the past 14 days, with the most popular news item on top.

To avoid duplication with the main magazine column, the first four news item in the main magazine will not be shown in the trending column, even if they are very popular.

The news magazine has a section navigation that allows you to read only news items within that section.

Only published news items are shown, even if you’re logged in as a news editor. If you are logged in as a news editor, there’s a pencil icon on each news item that will take you directly to the editing view for that news item, in the News app.

Contributing news articles

If you belong to a user group that has more permissions to contribute news articles, then a button ‘Contribute’ appear at the top right hand side of the news magazine.

When you click on the button a form appears.

Write the desired title of the article and select the news section you want it to appear in and click ‘Create’.

A new news article will be created in the News app that you can edit and submit for review.

Your article will become visible in the news magazine after you have clicked ‘Submit’ and the editor(s) have have approved it. The sections that you can submit articles for might be limited.

For more details about editing a news article, please consult the help page of the News app.