News gadget configuration

Navigate to Left navigation  System Administration  News Gadget.

This opens the Search Static Resources form. Click Add New Resource button.

Give the resource a Title, and enter SYSMSG as the code. Leave the Type as HTML.

In the text box, enter the message you want to shows in user dashboard news gadgets. This is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, with a toolbar that allows for formatting items, inserting tables or links. You can also click the source code button, circled in red, to edit the HTML directly. This must be done if adding an image. See Add images to news gadget.

Click Save at the bottom to save the changes.

Navigate to Left navigation  System Administration  News Gadget.

Click Add New Resource.

Fill in the upper part of the form:

Click Choose File to select the image.

Click Save at the bottom to save the changes.

Click Back to Static Resources. The image is now added as a static resource.

Navigate to Left navigation  System Administration  News Gadget.

This opens the Search Static Resources form. Hover over, or click, the open link icon on the right of the image name to open the image.

Note the id of the resource. In this example URL cms/content?dispatch=onViewResource&resource.id=2, the id is 2.

If a News Gadget needs to be created, add one. See How to change the news gadget content. Otherwise, ensure you are on the Search Static Resources form, and click a News Gadget.

In the text editor, click the source code button in the tool bar.

Add the following line where you want the image to show:

<p><img src="cms/content?dispatch=onViewResource&resource.id=2" /></p>

Replace the id (value 2 in the example) with the id noted in step 3.

Repeat this process for each image you want to add. You can also add other HTML tags to add formatting, such as style, width, height.

Click Save to save changes and close the source code editor.

Click Save to save the gadget.