Dock User Guide


News and Announcement

This App displays the IT Department related News.

To View the Details

Clicking on View more button at the bottom pf News and Announcement app will display all news items.

 

This will redirected the user to news details page.

User can individually view each of the news as clicking on the respective news item with a categorized as Featured News and user can like,Unlike and share the news

 

To Add a News

User can add a new news item by clicking on ‘+’ icon. This will redirect user to news NewForm page 

  • Title: the text to be displayed in the News and Announcement.
  • Summary: This shows a brief summary of the news item to be displayed in site, has rich text property. 
  • Description: Here user can add the full description of news item, it has rich text property available so hypertext also can be given.
  • Date: User can select a date from Date Picker the date should be past  the system date. 

            

 

  • Featured Status: This feature will categorize the news item as Featured and Non featured news  

                           

  • Page Image: To upload an image click on the link 
  • From the pop up click on ‘Browse’ button.

     

    Clicking on browse button will redirect user to a page where user can add an existing image or new image. User could navigate through all the sub sites, libraries, lists etc. and could select the desired image. User can see the location of selected image.

    Or user can add a new image by clicking on 

    This will redirect user to browse image form.

    Click on ‘OK’ button for uploading image, or ‘Cancel’ for going back. The newly uploaded image will get saved in the selected site/library/list.

    After selecting the image, click on ‘Insert’ button for add the image to ‘News and Announcement' or ‘Cancel’ button for discarding.

    Now, click on ‘Save’ button for saving the new News and Announcement item or click on ‘Cancel’ for cancelling the entry.

     

  • Tags: user can select a tag from the available tags.   

 

 

   Click on save button to save the properties of the document or cancel button for discarding.

  • Active Status: user can tick active status only then the news will be displayed on  the site and then save the news

  

 

To Edit a News

 

User can edit the item directly by clicking on the edit icon   given for each of the News item in News and Announcement app this will redirect the 

 

User can edit any of the fields and save the changes.

To Delete a News

User can delete an item by clicking on the delete  icon  in the News and Announcement. A confirmation message will appear and user can click on ‘Ok’

 

Alternatively, user can also delete the item through

Go to site contents > News List , select the item user want to delete and then select the ‘items’ button on the top navigation and click ‘delete’ . Or click on more options (…) of the selected item and select delete.

To view all news and announcements

 

Clicking on View more button at the bottom pf News and Announcement app will display all news items.

 

This will redirected the user to It news details page.

User can individually view each of the news as clicking on the respective news item with a categorized as Featured News and user can like,Unlike and share the news