The announcements module, within eFusion, is essentially a news manager. There are several ways to utilize the announcements module. You can create a News page and display all of the announcements you have created, you can display a set number of your latest announcements on a home page, or interior template, assign announcements to specific categories, and display them on separate pages, or display just a single announcement on any given page.
Creating an announcement is very similar to creating a webpage, and uses the same WYSIWYG editor that the web pages do. You are able to assign specific templates to each individual announcement, and like any web page you have the ability to add tables, images, links, and of course, plain text, which can have various CSS elements attach to it. Using the advanced layout feature, the entire layout of every announcement can be changed as well. The default layout is very basic, and will show the subject title, the release date, and the main body content. Below all of this there is, by default, a comments form included for visitors to rate your news piece. Any comment needs to be approved by an admin before it will show up on the news item. This comment section can also be removed completely. There are also several other placeholder tags that can be added into this layout to display other helpful pieces of information, such as: a list of categories the item has been classified in, the expiry date, if one has been set, the last time the news was updated, an add to favourites link, a tell a friend link, and a few others.
After completing the initial setup, and creation of all the announcements they must be placed on a page, or on a template. Within the announcements module there will be a button that says add this to a web page. Upon clicking this button a list of all current web pages will be available. Clicking the page the announcements will go on will bring you into another editors with a button on the top-left of the editor that reads 1 click insert. Clicking this will provide a dropdown of a few different ways to insert the module. You can insert an individual announcement, all announcements, latest announcements, or announcements within a certain category. In order to add an announcements to a template you must go into the template itself, and use the add modules to this template option, which essentially works the same way as adding the module to a web page. In addition to adding the news items to a page, or template, if you have an RSS feed you can also add individual news items into the RSS feed.
Once the announcement has been added to the website you can come back into the item and you will be able to view a small report on the amount of views any one particular item has
