The News section is designed to inform the users of the Intranet Portal on various issues.

 

The section can be accessed from the main menu by clicking the News button. Individual news items are written by the company employees and other persons who have access to the portal and were assigned special rights. The items are organized in the form of list where the title and teaser of the news item are displayed together with its summary. Even though the content of the news is primarily aimed at business activities of the company, there are in fact no limitations as to the orientation of the section. News titles or headlines work as links that lead directly from the section main page to the news items pages. Here you can not only read the actual item together with some additional text if available. You can also manage the item as long as you were assigned appropriate rights by the portal administrators.

 

To demonstrate the News section's features, we will use Luke Hillman, one of the sample users shipped with the portal. Log on using the LukeH username with blank password and select News in the main navigation. You should see a page similar to the one depicted in the following screenshot.

 

 

The main page of the News section is taken up by the interface that is used to display the list of news items. The colored background contains the news headline together with the news release date. The teaser image of the news together with its summary are placed below the colored background.

 

There are two ways how to deal with news on the Intranet Portal:

 

•News can be read by anyone who has access to the portal.

•News can be managed only by users who were assigned appropriate rights.

 

Apart from these global news items, each department and workgroup also has its own dedicated news items, accessible only to members of the department or workgroup. These items can be accessed through the main navigation within each department's or workgroup's dedicated website section. Please refer to the Departments and Workgroups chapters for more details.

 

Reading news

 

If you would like to read news on the portal, choose News from the main menu and you will see a list of news items displayed on the main page of the News section. If you would like to read a particular news item in detail, click on its title and you will be redirected to the news item page. Besides the name, teaser and summary of the news item displayed in the list, you have now access also to the main text if available. What is more, it is possible to subscribe to news using RSS feeds by clicking on the icon beside the caption of the section. If you would like to learn more about RSS feeds available on the Intranet Portal, please refer to Other features -> RSS feeds.