Posting Breaking News to theday.com#

This assumes your story is written and ready to be published and needs to be posted under ‘Latest News’ on the website.

In NCS Content’s story list, highlight your story and right-click to get to the Edit properties … menu, as shown in FIG. 1, below.

FIG. 1 – Right-click story and go to the ‘Edit properties …’ menu item. FIG. 1 – Right-click story and go to the ‘Edit properties …’ menu item.

The web properties tab may be laid out or look differently on your screen, but the same options should be available to all.

In addition to any other subject/descriptive taxonomy you are adding (and, you are adding it, correct?), you’ll need to add the Breaking News taxonomy. Start typing “Breaking” into the field below the taxonomy box and you’ll see “Custom > 0 Breaking News” appear (see FIG. 2). Double-click it to select it and add it into the taxonomy box.

While web properties tab is open, check to make sure that the following options are set:

  • Comments is checked (unless the story is about sexual assault; you should discuss with an editor, if so).
  • Paywall is set to Premium Content (unless it’s a matter of public safety or well-being; you should discuss with an editor, if so).
  • Online Publication time is set to “immediately”.

FIG. 2 – In the Web properties tab, select your taxonomy words and assure all other properties are correctly set. FIG. 2 – In the Web properties tab, select your taxonomy words and assure all other properties are correctly set.

Once web properties are set, you’ll need to publish the story to web. Do so by clicking the “Publish” button in the upper right corner of the NCS story listing (see FIG. 3).

FIG. 3 – Click to ‘Publish’ button to send the story to the website. FIG. 3 – Click to ‘Publish’ button to send the story to the website.

The final step is making sure the story shows up in the “Latest Headlines” bucket on the home page. To do so, you must re-cache the home page, which loads new or reloads updated content.

You can re-cache the home page via this URL: https://www.theday.com/&nocache=1

NOTE: Please don’t overuse the recache link, as it can bog down the web server. I fyou find you have to recache several times to correct mistakes, please wait at least 3 minutes between recaches; and never do more than 2 recaches within 10 minutes.