These items don't need to be created as separate pages, or even as part of existing pages, and may not need any HTML usage at all, or even assigning a page reference (URL). Using the Drupal Story concept will automatically ensure that each such item will appear as a separate item in the RSS feed. It is assumed that none of these items need to appear in the navigation menu.
In the Administer page go to Create content->Story (or use http://www.britgo.org/node/add/story) and then:
- Title
should include the word Tournament or Teaching Event if it is one
(this duplicates the News type, but it appears in the RSS feed item)
- News Type
Always select the correct one (as this means that you can see all items of the same type together)
- Tournament Date
This and the following three fields should not be used except for Tournament Reports and perhaps Diary entries.
The To Date should only be entered for a tournament/event over multiple days
- Tournament Type
Can be ignored
- Venue
Could be omitted, but it's desirable to have at least the town and postcode
- Body
Assumes the Input format defaults to Markdown (if not then change it):
- Diary Entries should be entered as (mmm is Month and YY year)
[Diary Entry added or updated](/tournament/index.html#mmmYY)
- Tournament results should be entered as
[Results added](/results/year/name.html)
- Other Site Updates should be entered as
[xxxx added](/page.html)
- Any text can be used for all other News Types, with an internal britgo.org link being entered simply as
[text](/ref)
- All other options should normally be the defaults (URL path settings and Menu settings do not need to be used except in exceptional circumstances).
- In the event of doubt the Publishing options should be
Promote to Front Page (creates an RSS entry)
- ALWAYS PREVIEW BEFORE SUBMITTING
- When you're happy with what it looks like then press SUBMIT
That's it
- There's no need to create a URL reference, unless this needs to be referred to from a menu, as Drupal handles all the internal references.
- The list of new news items is generated automatically.
- If you need to create another kind of link to this item then you can use /node/NNNN as the reference, rather than having to use a .html one.
Last updated Thu Mar 08 2012. If you have any comments, please email the webmaster on web-master AT britgo DOT org.