How do I create a news/event entry?

Answer

1. Open the News or the Events folder, respectively. Then open the folder of your institute.

2. If you want your news to be shown on the department's page as well as on your institute's page, skip to step 4.

3. If you want your news to be shown only on your institute's page. Open the subfolder 'local news' .

4. Click on the icon 'New record' .

5. Select Type 'News' and enter the needed information. The fields 'Start', 'Stop' indicate the duration when the news is shown in the frontend.

6. If your record is an event click the flag 'Event Info' and check the box 'Event' .

How do I show news/events only on the institute page?

Answer

See in the first Question (How do I create a news/event entry? ) step 3.

How do I show news/events on the institute page and on the departments home page?

Answer

See in the first Question (How do I create a news/event entry? ) step 2.

An event entry is not visible in front end. How can I make it visible?

Answer

1. If you want to edit an event, you see the following view. First of all check, if you didn't hide your event. The box 'Hide' must not be checked.

2. Click on the flag 'Event Info'

3. Make sure that you check the box 'Event' .

A publication doesn't show up in the author's publication list.

Solution

1. If you want to put up a publication, you are confronted with the following form:

2. Write all authors of the publication into the field 'Authors' . This are the people which show up in the description of the publication.

3. If the author has a personal page on your page, you should add him to the field 'Authors (NEW)' as well. Otherwise this publication will not show up in his personal publications list. In this example, Fröhlich is the only one with a personal page on the department page.