Add a News Item

News items are also known as 'blog posts'. Each section (called a space - eg ASNumbers) in the ICONS Wiki can publish its own news. News items may be announcements, journal entries, status reports or any other timely information you would categorise as 'news' pertaining to that topic.

Confluence catalogues the news items chronologically and allows you to browse news for the space by navigating a calendar.

To Add a News Item

1. Click the 'Add News' link to bring up the 'Add News' screen. It's just like the 'Add Child Page' screen
2. Enter a title for your news item in the 'Title' text field at the top. Keep it Short as this is the Title used in menus and navigation.
3. You can add another title in the body content area by using Wiki markup to make it a heading - for example:

h5. is Heading Five.

4. Enter your content in the text-entry box using Confluence markup or Rich Text as you would for any other page.
5. Add labels if you want to categorise information this way.
6. If you want to backdate your news item, click 'edit' next to 'Posting Day', as shown in the
screenshot below. You can set the date to earlier than today, but you cannot set it to a future date. And you can only change the date when creating the news item, not when editing a news item.
7. Preview and click 'Save'.