Developer/User's Guide For Package Enhanced News

by Lin Chen
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This is a document for how to use package Enhanced News. It includes the following topics:

I. What's new

The Enhanced News package is an ACS 3.4 package, and it replaces the ACS3.4 News module. This package is for managing news items at a newsgroup level.

Compared to the previous News module, this package provides more control for admin and regular users. For example, enhanced features include: setting approval policy at newsgroup level, enabling/disabling newsgroups, etc.

The site-wide administrators can change the settings for any newsgroups. But the news administrators can only changed the settings of the newsgroups they administer. For details on how to administer, please refer to the corresponding sections.

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II. Administer as a Site-wide Admin

URL: /admin/news

On this page, all enabled newsgroups are listed.

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III. Administer as a Newsgroup Admin

URL: /news/admin.
This page is also linked from user's index page /news if the logged in user is an admin as well.

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IV. User's Guide

URL: /news
All current and active items the user is entitled to see are listed.

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V. Revision History

Document Revision # Action Taken, Notes When? By Whom?
0.1 Creation 12/12/2000 Lin Chen
0.5 More Content 12/27/2000 Lin Chen
1.0 Revision 12/29/2000 Lin Chen Kyle Nicholls

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