Creating a Special Report#

REQUIREMENTS

You'll need two things for a special reports page before you even start:

A taxonomy word for the stories; and a profile to group the stories. Joe R. can create these for you.

The taxonomy should be something straightforward: like "Sailfest 2015" or "Kelo Ruling"; the profile can be a bit more eloquent — "Kelo v New London: 10 Years Later" — as it will be used as  a kicker for the main special reports index page (as shown below).

FIG. 1 – Profile name as kicker on Special Reports index page. FIG. 1 – Profile name as kicker on Special Reports index page.

When taxonomy and profile have been created, do the following:

Step 1: Mark all the stories, videos and galleries that you’d like to appear on the special reports page with the requisite taxonomy.

Step 2: When you’re done with this, pick the one story that should serve as the lead story for the report and open it to edit it. This is the story that will appear on the special reports index page and serve as a link to, and the lead story on, the full report page. There are 2 things you need to do to this story:

  1. Add the taxonomy word of "Special Reports"
  2. And assign it to the requisite Profile

NOTE: For the time being (as of December 2016) assigning a story to a profile needs to be done in the online edit UI at edit.theday.com/edit

To assign the story a profile, find the story in the online edit UI, open it for editing and and go to the Keywords tab.

Go down to the section marked Multi-Priority and choose the Profile from the drop-down list there; click Add, then check the radio button below Main Profile. You can now save the story.

FIG. 2 – Adding the profile to the lead/main story of a Special Reports page. FIG. 2 – Adding the profile to the lead/main story of a Special Reports page.

FIG. 3 – After selecting profile and adding, click the ‘Main Profile' radio button before saving. FIG. 3 – After selecting profile and adding, click the ‘Main Profile' radio button before saving.

Go to the master page & recache it:

http://www.theday.com/section/NWS15/&nocache=1

The lead story for the special report you just created via the steps above should be the first item on this page.

Click that headline — which should have a link in the format of http://www.theday.com/section/specialreports&Profile=xxxx, where xxxx is a four-digit number — and you’ll be taken to the special reports page. All the other stories on that page are those with the taxonomy you added in the first steps of this how-to.

If you want to create a ‘pretty URL' for this, see ‘How to Create an Alias'