Main News Content Type
ID: 376
Name: Main News
Description: Add news content to the site
This content type is used to add news to the main news site.
You can select three related stories using the conetnt selector to display these at the bottom of the story.
When selecting this content type for homepage news stories depeding on the layout this will return layout-1 or layout-2 of this content.
Page layout
As this content type is linked in to the PHP Search module we advise using the TCD - News & Events - Right Column layout as this will allow the right column search and menu to be displayed.
Example
You can view a demo of this content type by visiting Example Main News.
Content Element Details
| Name | Description | Size | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | The Name element | 800 Characters | Plain Text | true |
| Title | This is the content title (h1) | 800 Characters | Plain Text | true |
| Homepage feature & listing image (756 * 550px) | This image will be displayed if a news item is featured on the homepage and on news listing pages such as Top Stories. | 99999 Characters | Media | true |
| Article heading image (256 to 400 * 855px) | An optional image that appears below the title and summary. The height can be between 256 and 400px. | 99999 Characters | Media | false |
| Date released | 80 Characters | Date | true | |
| Abstract | Abstract which appears on the listing page and as the page description | 99999 Characters | Plain Text | true |
| Summary | Enter a short introduction | 5000 Characters | Plain Text | false |
| Main body | This is the main body | 999999999 Characters | Html | true |
| Byline - old | Who was this written by | 1500 Characters | Plain Text | false |
| Byline | Who was this written by | 80 Characters | Multiple Select | false |
| Tagging | 8000 Characters | Multi Select | false | |
| Type | What type of news is this | 800 Characters | Multiple Select | true |
| Show Share option | Uncheck this option to hide share option | 80 Characters | Checkbox | false |
| Related Story 1 | Select Story | 80 Characters | Section/Content Link | false |
| Related Story 2 | Select Story | 80 Characters | Section/Content Link | false |
| Related Story 3 | Select Story | 80 Characters | Section/Content Link | false |
| Migration Date | Temp element | 200 Characters | Plain Text | false |