4.10. News

The news section allows you to insert news relative to your project. A news can be monitored similar to tracker items, forums. News will be displayed on the project homepage and also on the site homepage, if the site administrators approve the news.

News are generally used to announce software releases, milestones, or significant changes in the software.

4.10.1. Inserting a news item

You can insert a news item by clicking on the Submit link.

You can post news about your project if you are an admin on your project.

All posts for your project will appear instantly on your project summary page. Posts that are of special interest to the community will have to be approved by a member of the ACOS team before they will appear on the FusionForge home page.

You may include URLs in your submissions. URLs that start with http:// are made clickable.

HTML is allowed in your submissions but filtered.

The news item will go to the News Admin for approval for publication.

4.10.2. Modifying/Approving a news item

You can modify or/and approve a news by clicking on the Admin link.

You can select the status of the news: Displayed or Deleted (the news will be deleted), you can insert the Subject (title) and the details.

4.10.3. Subscribing RSS feed for project news

You can subscribe a RSS feed for project news by clicking on the RSS icon on the Summary page of the project.