Creating your news area

Sitecore how-to

News templates• There are several templates designed to display your news content• NewAndSpeechesLanding – A template designed to show a

snapshot of your latest news, speeches and NDS news articles. This template automatically pulls through the items from child elements (location = /BISCore/Sections/NewsAndSpeeches)

• GenericNewsLanding – A landing page to display news articles in date order with latest article first. (location = /BISCore/Sections/GenericNews)

– GenericNews – A template for news articles • SpeechesLanding - A landing page to display speech articles in date

order with latest speech first (location = /BISCore/Sections/Speeches)

– Speech – A template for speeches• NDSPressNoticesLanding – A template designed to present news

articles published on the NDS news service RSS feed. (location = /BISCore/Sections/News/)

Which template to use?• Which news template you use is determined by the type and quantity

of news you have. • If you have multiple news content types (e.g. news and speeches)

you should always use the NewAndSpeechesLanding template as your top news landing page as this will nicely display your latest news content on one page.

• If you only have news articles but no speeches or NDS news you should use the GenericNewsLanding template as your top news landing page.

NewsandSpeechesLandingGenericNewsLandingSpeechesLandingNDSPressNoticesLanding

News Landing page

Press releases heading

Press releases number displayed

Press releases more link text

The NewsAndSpeechesLanding template automatically pulls through top stories, speeches and press releases from the child pages. Note the content will only appear once the child pages have been completed.

TitleBody

Top stories headingTop stories number displayed(3)

Top stories more link textSpeeches heading

Speeches number displayed(3)Speeches more link text

Setting the item locations

• The NewsAndSpeechesLanding template references the site setting item locations to establish where to look for the news, speech and press release items.

GenericNewsLanding• This template will automatically pull through news

articles you create as child elements and sort them in date order.

• Once you add the page insert a Generic News Year Folder underneath it. This will create a year folder and child month folders for you to add news articles to.

• Add your news articles using the GenericNews template.

Creating a top stories article (GenericNews template)

• Headline• Image• Summary• Body• Panel

SpeechesLanding

• This template displays a summary of child speech items in date order

Creating a Speech• Title• Minister giving speech

(details will be pulled through from the Minister page)

• Venue• Speech date• Body

NDSPressNoticesLanding• This landing page pulls through news

items from an NDS RSS feed. • You may need to contact NDS and ask

them to provide you with an RSS feed for your news. Example feed url = http://nds.coi.gov.uk/rss/default.aspx?feedid={b739fd02-9c0b-40e6-bd3f-9e2bf1f6040d}

• Once you have created the page please contact BIS digital team and request that you are added to the Check Partners News Feed schedule.