News Categories

Whenever you create a news or alert item, you will need to assign it to a news category. Categories have several basic functions. When creating news feeds, you can select what to show in the feed based on categories. The category determines if the items you add will be regular news items or alerts. A category defines which social media feeds are associated with each news item or alert.

To learn how to add a news item to a specific category visit the adding a news or alert item section.

Create a new category

To create a new category:

  1. Select the “More +” dropdown menu from the Utility Bar located at the top of the workbench
  2. Select “Category” from the dropdown menu
  3. Click the “Add New Category” button at the upper right of the category list
  4. Enter a name for your category and select whether it will be an Alert or a News item
  5. You will return to the category management screen

Video training: Create a News Category

Edit the name of the category

Once you've created a news category, you can name the category by:

  1. Clicking the pencil icon next to your category to open the “Edit Category” pop-up box
  2. In the “Name” field, you can update the name of your category if required
  3. Select the “Save” button to finalize the name

Do not edit the “Supported Modules” dropdown menu unless you have specific instruction to do so. This field should have no impact on your news item unless you have custom modules designed to support the news feeds.

Choose a template

You can select a news category template in i:Create. To do this, select the “More +” menu from the Utility Bar at the top of the workbench. Select “Category” from the dropdown and click the “Edit” icon next to your target category. Select the “Templates” tab to open a list of valid news templates. If you would like a template to have access to a new news category, check the associated box.

This allows you to limit certain categories to certain sections on your website, e.g., you likely won't want the Fire news category to show up under your Tourism news.

Add social media to the news category

To incorporate social media into your news feed:

  1. Add a social media channel to the news category
  2. Select the “More +” dropdown menu from the Utility Bar located at the top of the workbench
  3. Select “Category” from the dropdown menu
  4. Click the “Edit” icon next to your target category
  5. Select the “Social Media Channels” tab
  6. Check off each social media feed that will connect to the category

If the social media platforms you need aren't there, you will need to add a social media feed to your website.

After you save, you can change the settings in the future by clicking the “Edit” button.

Video Training: Add social media feeds to News

Update the news categories on the main news page

You can edit the news categories that users can filter by when searching for news items on the main news page.

News category filters

To edit which categories users can filter by:

  1. Select the "More+" menu from the backend of i:Create
  2. Choose "News Manager V3" from the dropdown menu. This will take you to the news configuration screen
  3. From here, select "Views" from the side menu
  4. Select the "Update" icon next to the news
  5. Scroll down to the "Categories" section of the "Update View" screen 
  6. Select the checkbox next to each news category that you'd like to display on the main news page
  7. Select the "Save" button to complete the process

news category clickable boxes

Please note

Be careful when you edit the news configuration as you can break or change things in your news module if you’re not aware of what the controls do.