Quick guide to creating news items

Sitevision has a built-in news feature. Among other things, it can be set up to display an article in several different places on the website, for example as a note on the home page or as an archive for all news items.

You can create internal news, i.e. news that you create yourself within the company/organisation, or retrieve external news from other websites using RSS feeds.

To make it easier for editors to add news items, you can create an article shortcut or choose to add a link that opens a news template directly under the archive where you want to add the news item.

Create a note on the start page

This guide describes how to set up a news feature with functionality. The latest three news items should be displayed on the home page with the date and headline. Three steps are required for this functionality.

Step 1: Create the archive where the news items will be stored

1. Select the page in the navigator where the archive is to be created.

2. Select Create New in the toolbar. Select the type Archive and give the archive a name. Click OK.

Sub-step 2: Create the news template (if there isn't already one)

If there is a news template, proceed to step 3.

1. Switch to Page Templates in the Navigator menu.

2. Create a new template, preferably based on another template that has a template area.

3. Add three text modules on the new template for Title, Abstract and Content. If you want to include an image in your template, add an image module.

4. Rename the modules so that the news module knows which fields to retrieve information from. Rename the text and image modules to the following names:

• Title — here you fill in the heading for the page
• Abstract —here you fill in the abstract of the news item
• Content — here you fill in the content of the news item.
• Image — if you want to include an image in the news module.

You can omit the modules you don't want in the news template, such as Ingress and Image.

5. Now you need to make the text modules available to users. You do this by converting them to content areas. To convert existing modules to content areas, the modules must be in a layout. If your modules are not already in a layout, place them in a layout. You do this by right-clicking on the top module and selecting the option "Place in layout." Drag the other modules into the new layout. Then right-click on the layout and select the option "Convert to content area."

6. Publish the template.

Subtask 3: Create the news column

1. Select the "News" module on the page where you want to display news. In this case, the start page. News settings are displayed.

2. Select the news archive you created in step 1. To do this, click on the Add link under Show articles from. A new window will appear where you can locate the archive in the structure.

3. Go to the Restrictions tab and select how many news items should be displayed on the start page, for example 5.

4. Go to the Content tab and decide how the news items should be displayed. By default , a list is displayed here with Publish date, Article image (Metadata), Article title (Metadata), Article abstract (Metadata), and Link to article. You can add more values (e.g., metadata, image, date, etc.) using the plus button.

In this case, we want to display the Publish date and Article title (Metadata). The news module does not display the title, abstract, content, and image unless they are included in the template. For each item we want to display, such as the Publication date, you decide how it should look (format) and which format template it should be displayed with.

5. Select the Publish date option in the list and double-click on it or select the edit icon on the right. Here you can set the font and specify the format in which you want to display the date. Under Use other format, you can, for example, write the date in parentheses (yyyy-MM-dd) and the format will be displayed (2026-06-01).

6. Select the Article image (Metadata) option and click the cross on the right to remove the image (do not display an image in the news module).

7. Select the Article Title (Metadata) option in the list and double-click it or click the edit icon to the right. Here, you can set the font and specify that the title should be linked to the article.

8. Select the Article abstract (Metadata) option and click the check mark on the right to delete the introduction.

9. Select the Link to article option and click the check mark on the right to remove the link.

10. We have now shown how we want the news module to present our news. Click OK and publish the page. Done! The result will be:

6. If you want editors to be able to easily create new news items, check the Show link to create new articles box under the Archive tab and select the news template we created in step 2. You do this by selecting a template under Template.

As a result, editors who have write access to the archive will see an "Add article" link under the news module: