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News, RSS, and Messages

Bulletin Builder makes available to users the ability to create a section of repeating content with the News, RSS, and Messages Section. This section allows for grouping items of a similar type together such as parish news, messages, or sermons. The News, RSS, and Messages also has the ability to read from a website's RSS feed and can be shared with others by the parish administrator.

Adding a Multi-Text Block Section to Your Bulletin

  1. Navigate to Manage in the site menu at the top of the page and select Bulletin Archive from the drop down menu.
  2. From the left-hand margin, click Manage Active Bulletin.
  3. Include the News, RSS, and Messages section into your bulletin by scrolling down to Add A New Section and click the News, RSS, and Messages button.
  4. In the popup window that appears, you will need to select a title for your section. You may choose to also include a description. When you have finished click Save.
  5. Scroll back to the top of the page and click Return to your bulletin.

Adding Content to your News, RSS, and Messages Section

Adding content to the News, RSS, and Messages gives users the ability to include either custom content such as parish news, or RSS feed content from website such as the website for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

  1. Displayed in the left-hand margin are the sections in your bulletin. Select your News, RSS, and Messages section from this list.

Adding Custom Content

  1. In the section action bar at the top of the page click the Add Item button.
  2. In the popup window provided you will need to provide a title as well as the section content. You may choose to include a publish date with your content by selecting a date in the drop-down calendar in the display date field. In the text field, type or paste in your content. Using the formatting options below, style your text as needed. You may also include photos and hyperlinks in your text.
  3. When you are done, click either Save and Close to close the window or Save and Add Another to add more content.

Adding an RSS Feed

  1. In the section action bar at the top of the page click the Add RSS Feed button.
  2. In the popup window provided it is required that you provide a valid URL or web address to the RSS you would like to include. Please be sure to include the https:// at the beginning of the URL (e.g. https://www.goarch.org/rss/news/RSS).
  3. When you are done, click Save to close the window.
  4. You may pick and choose which items you would like to include in your bulletin by clicking the Remove button in the item action bar above each listing.
  5. Items removed from from your bulletin will be saved in the Also Available section below on your page (see Removing Items for further details).
  6. At any time you may edit the information for the items in this section by clicking the Edit button in the item action bar located above each listing.
  7. You may also edit the title and description for this section by clicking the Edit button in the section action bar at the top of the page.

Sharing

Sharing the News, RSS, and Messages Section

Parish Administrators will have the ability to share this section with other parishes.

  1. To share the News, RSS, and Messages section, click the Share Section button in the section action bar at the top of the page.
  2. In the popup window provided select a share type, a date at which time the shared content will no longer be available to others, and the appropriate keywords which best describe the shared content.
  3. Click share to close the window.

How to Stop Sharing the News, RSS, and Messages Section

  1. Click the Sharing this Section button in the section action bar at the top of the page.
  2. Click Stop Sharing close the window.

Removing an Item from your News, RSS, and Messages Area

Remove an item from the News, RSS, and Messages section in order to save it for another time.

  1. Beginning at the top of your page, find the item that you would like to remove.
  2. Click the Remove button to move that bulletin insert down the page to the Also Available area
  3. To include something from this area back into your bulletin click the Add button .

Deleting an Item from your News, RSS, and Messages Area

To delete a bulletin insert from your current bulletin will erase that item completely from your bulletin.

  1. Beginning at the top of your page, find the item that you would like to delete.
  2. Click the Delete button . Your item will not be deleted until you confirm your decision in the pop up window.

Removing the News, RSS, and Messages Section from your Bulletin

Removing this section from your bulletin will place it in the Add Available Content area on the Manage Bulletins page. Scroll to the top of the page and click the Remove Section button in the section action bar.

Deleting the News, RSS, and Messages Section from Your Bulletin

Deleting this section from your bulletin will erase it completely from your bulletin. Scroll to the top of the page and click the Delete Sectionbutton in the section action bar.

Searching for Shared Content

Users may search for other News, RSS, and Messages sections that have been shared by other Bulletin Builder users and include them in your own bulletin.
  1. Scroll to the bottom of the Mutli-Text Block page and in the text field enter in a search term and click Search A search term may be the name of a city, a parish name, the name of an organization, or a keyword such as 'youth', 'news', or 'liturgy'.
  2. From the list of found items click the Add button on the items that you would like to include in your bulletin.
 
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