iPortal provides the news center module. After logging in to iPortal, the administrator can click "Management" > "News" > "News Management" to search, add, publish, recall, edit, and delete news items. The relevant operations of news management are as follow:

Searching news

Enter the news title keyword in the search input box on the right, click the search button or press the Enter key, and the news items matching the keyword will be searched and listed. You can edit, publish, recall, delete these searched news items as needed.

Adding news

Click the "Add News" button to enter the Add News page and enter the following information:

  • Title: News title
  • Source: News source
  • Content: News content. The content input area is based on a visual Markdown editor, as shown in the following figure.

  • On the left side of the toolbar: Provides frequently-used visual editing tools, such as bold, italic, title, underline, upper/lower corner mark, alignment, etc. In addition to text content, it also supports inserting links, pictures, code blocks, and tables. Undo, redo, and restore are supported during editing.
  • On the right side of the toolbar: Supports setting to enable title navigation during preview, enable/disable preview, full-screen editing, immersive reading, and switch between single and double column modes in the editing area. Support viewing the Html source code corresponding to the edited content. In addition, we've provided an introduction to Markdown syntax for your reference.
  • Content editing area: The default is the two-column display, that is, editing and previewing are on the same screen (editing window on the left, previewing window on the right). If you switch to single-column mode, the screen is in the editing state. Click "Preview" on the right side of the toolbar to switch to the preview window. For a better editing experience, it is recommended that you enable full-screen editing when editing content.

You can do the following after editing:

  • Save and publish: other users in the portal (including anonymous users) can see the published news immediately.
  • Save: This news will only be saved, other users in the portal (including anonymous users) will not see this news. You can publish the news separately to the entire portal later.
  • Restore: For newly added news, performing the "Restore" operation will clear all the news content you have added, including title, source, and content.
  • Cancel: Cancel the addition of news and will return to the "News Management" page.

Publishing news

If the news is only saved but not published or has been recalled, it will be marked as "unpublished." For unpublished news, single release and batch release are both supported. After publishing, other users in the portal (including anonymous users) can see this news.

  • Single release: After filtering out the "unpublished" news through the browse, or search or the filter on the right side of "Status" in the header, click "Publish" in the action bar corresponding to the news item, and in the pop-up window click the "OK" button.
  • Batch release: After filtering out the "unpublished" news through the browse or search, or the filter on the right side of the "Status" in the header, check the checkbox in front of the news title to be published and click "Publish" button at the top of the table, and click the "OK" button in the pop-up window.

Recalling news

Published news in the portal supports recalling. Once recalled, other users in the portal (including anonymous users) will not see the news. It can also be republished after being recalled.

  • Single recall: After filtering out the "published" news through the browse, or search function or the filter on the right side of "Status" in the header, click "Recall" in the action bar corresponding to the news item, and click the "OK" button in the pop-up window.
  • Batch recall: After filtering out the "published" news through the browse or search function, or the filter to the right of "Status" in the header, check the checkbox in front of the news title to be recalled, and click the "Recall" button on the top of the table and click the "OK" button in the pop-up window.

Editing news

You can edit both "Published" and "Unpublished" news. The title, source, content of news all support editing. Click "Edit" in the operation bar corresponding to the news item to enter the news editing page to start editing. After finishing the edit, click "Save" to take effect. If you click "Restore", the news content will be restored to the state before editing.

Deleting news

The news supports single deletion and batch deletion.

Single deletion: Click "Delete" in the operation bar corresponding to the news item to be deleted, and click "OK" in the pop-up window to complete the deletion operation.

Batch deletion: Check the checkbox in front of the news title to be deleted, click "Delete" at the top of the table, and click "OK" in the pop-up window to complete the deletion operation.