Marking a page as 'news item' (Races site)

If you mark an item as a 'news' item - you can fill the 'image' field and the 'teaser' field just the same as for pages marked as an 'event'.

However, there are some new fields to fill in also:

Gallery URL

If you enter a URL here, visitors will be able to see a link to race photos directly from news 'views' you have set up on the site. Also, if you upload an image and choose to display the uploaded image on the page, there will be a button below it with a link to the gallery page.

Results

You can either enter a link to files you have uploaded, or to another page where the race results are. If you fill in this field, a 'results' button will show up on news views throughout the site, and also on the page itself.

Date

The date is basically set up so that if you are switching a page from an 'event' to a 'news' item after a race, the date will be the same as the 'To: date' in the event.

Note: if you are entering news items from an event that took place more than two weeks back, you will have to first click on 'item will appear under upcoming event' and ensure the 'From: date' is before the 'To: date', and then click on 'item will appear under latest news'. This is a bug we hope to fix shortly.

Location

This information is mainly for the global home page. You only need to enter your city (and country for Czechoslovakia and ODBS) - not latitude or longtitude.

Important note: very often you will need to create more than one page for a recent event (e.g a seperate results page and race report). In that case, just mark one of them as a news item - the one you want your visitors to see first (probably the race reports). You can then link the rest of them to that page - for example by placing the link to the results page in the 'results' section