Adding News items

The News facility is designed to provide an easy way for any group within the CA to post items of interest on MyCA so that they also can be grouped together as submenus on the News menu item.

Only members who have some specific role recognised in MyCA can post to the news facility - this includes all members of committees, section secretaries and staff. The news items starts with a tag "From" one of the groups below:

• CA
• Council
• Library
• RATS
• Sections
• Secretariat
• WebGroup

We're open to adding more items to this group if there is some good reason, although it introduces some overhead. You can use "CA" if there is no better designation available.

To add a news item, click on the Add Information item on the left hand side of the MyCA screen and choose the News Item entry. This will give a normal editing page with three boxes at the top: Title, Visible by and From. The title is obligatory. Visible by allows you to restrict the item to Members only or make it visible to the world (public access) and the From picks one of the groups above.

For guidance about how to lay out the text, see here.

At the bottom there are two boxes, one of which controls whether comments should be allowed (please do unless there is good reason not to) and for file attachments.

Since some members don't find using computers easy, they may in practice ask one of the web group or the secretariat to enter an item for them. These two groups of people can set the authorship field of a piece and also the date so that their names will appear at the top of the article underneath the title.