UNITE - WALL - How to Create a Post

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Overview
• HOW TO CREATE A POST

Overview

The WALL: Create articles for officers, staff and students to see information posted by IUPAT, HQ and District Councils. 

There are 8 sections of the WALL:

Call to Action – Announcements – Meeting Minutes – Contracts – Training & Certification – Document – RSS News Feeds - Expired

The WALL

Call to Action - Asking your members to participate and engage with you such as political event 

Meeting Minutes - Store your minutes here so your members have 24-hour access.

 Announcements – general announcements

Contracts – Store your Collective Bargaining Agreements or Memorandum of Understanding here for your members to have 24-hour access.

Training and Certification – Announce upcoming Training or Certification information. 

 Documents – Share applicable forms or documents with your members.

RSS News Feeds – Once configured, you can offer your members current RSS News Feeds that refresh daily.

Expired Content – When a post expires, it moves to the Expired Content section where it is stored and available for future edits.

HOW TO CREATE A POST

• Navigate to MY ACCOUNT tab
• Under TOOLs folder click MY WALL

• Click on the + button in top right corner
• Fill out the information in the Add a new post Screen

Type: Announcement - Document - Call to Action

Promote: promoting a specific article will keep it at the top of the list on the dashboard

Organization: choose which organization to create post based on level of access. Content created by a District Council will be visible to all organizations that fall under that District Council

Category – default category is General

Expiration Date – can pre-set when an article expires. If creating for a specific event, you will not need to remember to go back and remove post after event is over

Title – create title for article

Content – customize content for your article

Image – select upload button to browse file on your machine. Choosing the upload button under “Header Image” will sit photo onto of news card and the “insert/edit” image icon will place image inside article

Attachments – select “+ Choose” button or link icon to add attachments such as class schedules or links to pdf’s

Save once finished

Edit/Delete - after article has been created, can go back at any point to edit or delete. (Icons on bottom right of news cards). Update content, delete attachments or photos, add new links or photos, and save. Will automatically apply those changes to the article.

Dashboard – filters specific categories. When a user signs in and looks for a specific Announcement, Document or Call to Action on dashboard, they can isolate all cards.

Expired – any articles previously created that have expired are still accessible here. Just not front and center. As an admin, editing an expired article works the same way. An expired article can be edited with updated information, change expiration date, and will make post current again.

Note – At this time there is not storage limit to expired articles.