Web Manual: Announcement (News)

This is where the body text will go. In this example, we will explain the fields below:

The content type in question is the Announcement content type. This is the replacement for the "News" type that you may be used to from Drupal 7.

Headline:

This is a mandatory field and the title of the announcement. 

Feature Image:

This is an optional upload. If you do choose to upload an image (The ideal is an image no wider than 2000px at the widest part of the image and 72ddpi. If it is too large, it can take a long time to load or not show up at all), it requires the alternative text field to be filled in for accessibility purposes. The field will automatically crop the image to a 3:2 ratio. Please keep that in mind when you upload an image. Ideally you can pre-crop your image to a 3:2 ratio size to ensure that this field doesn't crop off a part of an image that you want visible. 

Feature Image Caption:

This area is the caption for the image that is visible to viewers of your Announcement page. Something to consider putting here is an image credit (if you need to include it) or a description of the image.

Summary:

This area is for a summary of your Announcement in 160 characters. This is helpful if you have a "news page" that shows all of the Announcement listings with a blurb. The summary would be the blurb. 

Body:

This section is the section where your main text will go. This section is where the wysiwyg is located. It is identical to the other content types. You can find instructions on the wysiwyg here. 

External Link:

ONLY link a URL here if you don't actually have your own content and want to link externally. If you put a link here, viewers who click on the link through your aggregate news page will go directly to the external link and not to this page. 

Link text:

This would be the headline/title for the external link URL.

On the right hand side in the Metadata:

Some websites will have options to select tags. Please make sure to tag your announcements accordingly.