News item
A news item asset allows you to add articles to your site. These articles could be anything from a media release to a general article on your site.
The main difference between the news item and a standard page is a field called Summary. In this field, you can enter a summary of the article, which you can then display on an asset listing page and link to the news item.
The news item also has a few dedicated fields to enter contact information about the person who wrote the article.
| The contents of a news item does not allow for multiple content containers or the use of content templates. To gain more control and flexibility over the contents of your article, consider using standard page assets instead. |
Unlike standard pages, news items do not have a Contents screen. Instead, all of the content and information is entered on the Details screen.
Details
This section allows you to enter the name of the news item and various information the person to contact about the article.
- New headline
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This is the name of the article. This value is also used for the asset’s name and short name.
- Contact name
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The name of the person to contact about the article.
- Contact phone
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The phone number of the person to contact about the article.
- Contact email
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The email address of the person to contact about the article.
Edit contents
This section is where you enter the contents of the news item.
- Summary
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A summary of the article or news story. This summary is often used in asset listings to show a preview of the article before the user clicks on the link to view the full news item page.
- Body
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The main body of the article or news story. This field is where you should enter the main contents of the news item.
Display
This section allows you to decide which information should be shown and hidden for the news item.
If you set any of these fields to No, they are hidden when the news item page is viewed on the front-end.
Link
This section allows you to link the news item’s headline to an asset or an external web site. For example, you can use this if you have created a news item on one site, but the full media release has been created on another site. You can create a link from the news item to the media release.
- URL
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The full URL of the external web page to which you would like to link. You need to include the full URL, for example, https://www.example.com/news-story.
- Or asset
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Instead of linking to an external URL, you can choose to link to an asset within your Matrix system. Use this field to pick the asset to which to create a link.
- URL suffix
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Add any additional URL query strings to use as part of the URL. This suffix is added at the end of the link, as specified in either the URL or asset fields. For example, if the URL of the link is https://www.example.com/news-story, and you enter a URL suffix value of
?some=value, the resulting URL on the front-end would be https://www.example.com/news-story?some=value.