Create news items
This topic explains how to create a news item.
When creating a news item, you must perform the following steps:
- Check whether the news item already exists.
Before you create the news item, you must check whether an item with the same ID already exists. - Create the news item.
If the news item does not exist, you create a new news item with the specified ID. - Set the required properties.
When creating a new news item, we recommend setting at least the following properties: - Title
- Content
- LastModified
- DateCreated
- UrlName
- You can also set any properties, such as Author or Summary.
- Save the news item.
Save all changes that you have made to the news item. - Publish the news item.
You publish the news item using the workflow manager.