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Simon Fraser University CERG News Manager

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The record of CERG news coverage, and the source of the HTML for the In the News page.

Your first and last name

Recorded against anything you add or change.

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can’t be placed by date, so they sit at the end of the page.

Advanced

Import CSV

Columns: Title, Subtitle, Date, Link. Multiple links per cell, comma-separated.

On duplicate title

Skip Overwrite Replace all

Inserts new rows. Existing titles untouched.

upload_file Choose a .csv file or drop one here

Recently deleted

Preview

Nothing here yet. Add a news item, or import a CSV.

Edit news item

News title

News details

The line after the date, e.g. “Andy Hira quoted in Vancouver Sun”.

Date

Date

Exact date Approximate

Exact date

Approximate date

Printed exactly as typed. “Late March 2023”, “Mid-November 2025” and “September 2-15, 2025” are all sorted into the right place.

Links (optional)

Shown on the page as the site name, like vancouversun.com.

Update “In the News” page

Copy the HTML

Generated HTML
Open the page in AEM
Replace the code in the HTML component

Find the embedded code block on the page and choose Edit. It opens in a new tab. Select everything in the component, delete it, paste what you copied, and save.

Screenshot slot — add the image path to config.js

Copy HTML

HTML for the selected news items

Delete these items?

How this works

The short version of everything this tool does.

menu_book Adding a news item The full written guide open_in_new

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The list

Everything is stored here permanently and ordered by date, newest first. You never place an item by hand.

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Editing

Double-click a news item, or use its Edit button. The form opens where the item sits. After saving it slides to wherever its date belongs.

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Dates you aren’t sure about

Switch the date to Approximate and write it however it should read. The wording is kept exactly as typed; only the sort position is worked out — “late” lands near the end of the month, “mid” around the middle, and a range on its first day.

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Copying HTML

Click a news item to select it, or use its Copy button for that one card. Select several to copy them together. “Update In the News page” gives you the whole page, year headings included.

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Deleting

Deleted items move to Recently deleted in the sidebar and can be restored for 30 days, after which they are cleared automatically. You can also delete one for good from that list.

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CSV

Export downloads the whole list — a good backup to keep elsewhere. Import reads the same format back, and asks what to do about titles that already exist.

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