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N1 Provisioning Server 3.1, Blades Edition, Control Center Management Guide

Managing News Content

This section describes how to create news content for the Main screen of the Control Center. You can publish a news item to either all accounts or a specific account. You can choose whatever news item you deem pertinent to the user.

The News Content screen contains the following sections:

In the categories section, top left, you can add, remove, or update a news category. When you click Add Story, a dialog appears asking for the new category's name and a brief description. When you click Remove Story on a highlighted category, the highlighted category is removed from the category list. Click the Update Story button to update the description and name of an existing (highlighted) category in the list.

You can control the order in which the categories are displayed on the user Main screen in the Control Center by selecting a category and clicking the up or down arrow next to the list of categories. The order in which you select the categories is the same order in which the users will see them on the Main screen. When users first access the screen, the top-most category is selected by default.

The Story Preview window enables you to preview an article that you have selected from the Articles drop-down list in the Story Editor window.

The Articles drop-down list lets you preview, remove, or update existing articles, and create new articles. To preview an existing article, select an article from the drop-down list. To remove or update that article, click the Remove Story or Update Story button at the top right of the article management window.

Note –

You will receive an error if you copy and paste characters outside the supported Latin-1 character set (ISO-8859-1) into a news message.

ProcedureHow To Add and Publish An Article

Steps

  1. Choose Add Story from the drop-down menu.

  2. From the Account drop-down menu, select the account to which you want to publish the article.

    If you want to publish the article to all accounts, select All Accounts.

    Note –

    Carefully consider the content of the article before publishing the article to all accounts.

  3. In the Link Title field, enter the title for links to the article.

  4. Enter the Article Title in the next field.

  5. Enter the Byline in the next field.

  6. Choose the date, time, and time zone you want from the drop-down lists.

    Pacific Standard Time is the default time zone.

  7. Enter the content of the article in the content window. HTML tags entered in this window are properly interpreted.

    Caution – Caution –

    Use extreme caution, as careless usage of HTML tags can interfere with the appearance and function of the Control Center user interface.

  8. Click Preview Story to preview the article as the article will appear on the Main screen (user screen) of the Control Center and edit as necessary.

  9. When you are ready to publish the article, click Commit.