SLMS News Documentation

Neuroscience

When adding news articles to the Neuroscience site

1)    Go to https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/slms/slms-news/neuroscience/edit/tab_edit and click to add new article. When prompted, check 'Neuroscience' for the subject, and 'Neuroscience website' for the target audience

2)    Once the article is written and published, go to www.ucl.ac.uk/neuroscience and check that the article has appeared in the news listing on the home page.

If articles don't appear, contact Nick Dawe at 46644 or nicholas.dawe@ucl.ac.uk (or if I'm away, web-support@ucl.ac.uk which Web Services will check)

Creating news for other websites' news feeds

Follow the instructions above, but tick news subjects/audiences as below. If you want news articles to appear in multiple websites, then just tick all subjects/audiences necessary, as indicated below:

Notes for Web Services / Silva Support about SLMS faculties' news feeds

This is a slightly complex setup, basically because there are a lot of different audiences, websites, and content editors who are themselves based in various departments. For any questions (assuming I'm about) email nicholas.dawe@ucl.ac.uk

Repositories

Firstly, there are normally two news repositories (although some faculty sites may add their own news repositories in future):

1. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/edit/tab_edit
2. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/slms/slms-news/edit/tab_edit

In the first repository, news articles are written by Communications or Media Relations staff only. In the second repository, news articles are written by various SLMS staff, but can also be accessed by Communications and Media Relations staff (because they're within the /news site). This repository also has its own subjects/audiences filter set for it.

You'll also notice that in the second repository, news items are divided into folders. This is purely for organisation, and currently makes no difference to the technical workings of the news feeds.

Filters

There are a set of news filters at the Silva root dedicated to each UCL faculty. SLMS faculty filters pull in news from the repositories above. These filters have been placed at the root partly for historical reasons (ie they were put there when the /news site was first built), but also so that any other Silva site can use them.
There will probably always be at least two websites using these filters (the faculty's own website and the /departments/faculties page), although realistically there will be more (e.g. faculty departments).

Viewers

Generally faculty websites should set up a viewer on their own website which pulls in news from the filters based on the Silva root. Note, there may be some exceptions (again for historical reasons) in which a site may pull news from other locations e.g. a feed at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/slms/neuroscience-reader/edit/tab_edit (in this case, this was because the Neuroscience website wasn't in Silva, and needed to pull news from an RSS feed here). As a rule though, news viewers should just be based on the faculty/department's own Silva site.

SLMS website

Also, the SLMS website is again a bit different. It uses a viewer (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/slms-faculties-news/edit/) which pulls in content from all SLMS faculty root filters. Therefore if a news article is set up to appear on a faculty website (using the settings above) then it will also appear here.