News

The News feature allows you to publish announcements and information for project members.

Published news items are displayed on several screens, including the Home page, My page, the project Overview page, and the News page.

You can also notify project members by email when news is added.
To do this, go to Administration → Settings → Email notifications and turn on News added in the list of notification events.

Adding News

Click News in the project menu to open the list of news items for the current project.
From that screen, click Add news in the context links at the upper right to open the news creation screen.
After entering the required information, click Create.

To add news, the Manage news permission is required.
By default, this permission is assigned to the Manager role.
You can check or change permission assignments under:
Administration → Roles and permissions → Permissions report

Fields

Title

The title displayed in the news list and other views.

Summary

A short summary of the news content.
The Summary is displayed on the Home page, My page (Latest news block), and the project Overview page instead of the full description.