Sitefinity Desktop Experience: Create a news item

You can use Sitefinity CMS Desktop Application to create news items from your desktop, regardless of whether you are online or offline.

To create a News item, perform the following:

1. In the upper-left corner, click MENU » Create new » News.
2. Enter a title of the news.
3. Under CONTENT, enter the text of the news.
   For more information about formatting text and inserting functions, see Sitefinity CMS Desktop Experience: Use the text editor.
4. In the following fields,  enter if applicable, the following information:
   
   • Summary
   • Author
   • Source name
   • Source URL
   • If you have added any custom fields for news, all custom fields also appear.
     

     IMPORTANT: Some of the above fields may not be displayed when you create a news item, because they have been hidden.
     

     For more information about creating custom fields and hiding default fields, see Overview: Custom fields.

5. To allow users to be able to leave comments for the news, select Allow comments checkbox.
   For more information about comment settings, see Overview: Comments module.
6. To change the automatically generated URL, edit the text in the URL field.
7. You can classify your news using the Tags and the Categories sections.
   For more information, see Sitefinity CMS Desktop Experience: Categorize or tag an item.
8. When you are finished creating the news, you can do one of the following:
• If you do not have internet access or you do not want to publish the news yet, you can save it as draft by clicking Save Draft button in the upper-right corner of the screen.
• If you want to publish the news, click Publish button in the upper-right corner of the screen.
  You cannot publish an item, if you are working offline.
  If you are working offline, you can see the Go Online button in the lower-right corner of the screen. 
  Click Go Online and then Publish. 
  You cannot go online without access to the internet.
  
• NOTE: The news item is published according to the currently active workflow. For more information, see Overview: Content lifecycle and workflow.

For more information about blog posts in Sitefinity CMS, see News.