The Headline News Editor presents the following features (default view, with the Editor tab selected):

1 Global Properties

• Title: the title of the item.
• Criticality: used to set the criticality of the item - select one of the options: INFO - NORMAL - WARNING - ALARM.
• Protected: items with the Protected checkbox set to 'on' are only visible to users of the Protected Portal.

2 Date and Time

• Start Time: instant when an item becomes visible on the Portal - both under the Latest News tab from the Portlet and under the Online Events List tab from the More window.
  This value is optional - leaving the default value unchanged will result in the item being displayed as soo as it is published.
• Ongoing Time: instant when an item becomes Ongoing - and is then listed in the Ongoing News tab from the Portlet. This value is optional.
• End Time: instant when an item becomes Archived and is only visible under the Archive Events List tab from the More window.
  This value is optional - leaving the default value unchanged will result in the item remaining visible under the Online Events List tab from the More window.

3 Button Bar

• Edit: opens a saved version for edition.
• Save: saves the changes in a draft version.
• Cancel: close the current widows without saving any modification.
• Publish: displays the item on the Portal (and removes it from the Drafts list)
• Delete Draft: deletes the opened draft.

4 Tabs

• Editor: used to write and maintain the text content of an item
• Resources: used to upload resources (texts, images, ...) to be used within an item. Please refer to the Managing Resources section to get more information.

5 Content

• Free (rich) text area - available for up to 15978 characters.

6 Simple Text Editor

• Please refer to the Styled Text section for more information.

7 Signature

• Automatically inserted and based on profile - not editable.