Page Title

A name for your news.
Note :If your site has SEO dynamic turned on, you are not allowed to use the specialcharacters below the news title :
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Headline

Enter the title or headline of the news.

Content Body

Enter the full description of the news, you can add images and doHTML formatting here and other features using the HTML Editor.

Hide

Setting this to Yes will hide the news from the site.

Show on box

Setting this to Yes will display the news in the left column of the News section.

Show on Home Page?

Setting this to Yes will display the news in the homepage as a box.

In the image above, the news has been set Yes in the Show on Home Page? field. If you want to display news inthe homepage, make sure you also set Archive (see below definition) to No. As archive news will not be displayed in the homepage.

Archive?

Set this to Yes to include the news in the archive listing. So when a customer clicks to see an archive listing of the news in news page, this news can be found. (shopnewslistings.asp)

Start Date

Enter a start date for the news to be available.

End Date

Enter an end date for the news to expire.

Meta Title

Meta title for this news.

Meta Keywords

Meta keywords for this news e.g. : keywords1, keywords2, keywords3

Meta Description

Meta description for this news.

Access Level

All Visitors : Unregistered and all registered customers can view this news.

Registered Customers Only : Only registered users or logged in customers can view this news.

Customer Groups : Select this if you want a certain customer group can access news.

If you select the Customer Groups option, there will be two fields displayed below it :

Groups to be included : Select which customer groups can view this news.

You can select more than one customer group by pressing CTRL + click the wanted group.

Groups to be excluded : Select which customer groups cannot view this news.

You can select more than one customer group by pressing CTRL + click the wanted group.

In a certain case, where a customer is grouped into more than one customer group, for example customer A is grouped into customer group Wholesale and customer group Reseller…

Then when editing a category, we set the following, for example :

Groups to be included is set to Wholesale.

Groups to be excluded is set to Reseller…

Customer A will not able to see the news because the customer is in the customer group Reseller, which is in excluded list although the customer is also in the other Wholesale group. This is how the VPCart system works to take the excluded list as basis when a customer belongs to both groups in the included list and excluded list.

Image

This is the URL of an image to be displayed on this page.

Template File

If you want to use a custom template to display this information, enter the folder and name of the template here.

Language

If you are using the old method of adding translations, (xselectproductsbylanguage=Yes) then enter the language that this news entry belongs to here.

Other Fields 1

Unused.

Other Fields 2

Unused.

Other Fields 3

Unused.

Include in Google Site Map

Choose Yes to include into Google Site Map Lists

Frequency

How frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines and may not correlate exactly to how often they crawl the page. Valid values are: always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never.

The value "always" should be used to describe documents that change each time they are accessed. The value "never" should be used to describe archived URLs.

Please note that the value of this tag is considered a hint and not a command. Even though search engine crawlers may consider this information when making decisions, they may crawl pages marked "hourly" less frequently than that, and they may crawl pages marked "yearly" more frequently than that. Crawlers may periodically crawl pages marked "never" so that they can handle unexpected changes to those pages.

Priority

The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This value does not affect how your pages are compared to pages on other sites—it only lets the search engines know which pages you deem most important for the crawlers.

The default priority of a page is 0.5.

Please note that the priority you assign to a page is not likely to influence the position of your URLs in a search engine's result pages. Search engines may use this information when selecting between URLs on the same site, so you can use this tag to increase the likelihood that your most important pages are present in a search index.

Also, please note that assigning a high priority to all of the URLs on your site is not likely to help you. Since the priority is relative, it is only used to select between URLs on your site.

XNewsBoxTemplate

Used as the Template for Home Page News Box.

XNewsBoxHeadLinesOnly

Show only Headlines inside the News Box.

XNewsfullstoryHomeBox

Show the full story on the Default Home page Box or just a summary with a [read more] link.

XNewssummarylengthHome

If xNewsfullstoryHomeBox = No, then this is how many characters should be shown in the summary.

XNewsHomePageTemplate

Used as the News Template for Home Page.

Xnewsarchiveavailable

Allow customers to view an archive of news items.

Xnewsindexcalendar

Option to display the index of news items as a calendar (blog style) or as a list of links.

Xnewsallowreviews

Allow people to post reviews of your news items.

Xnewsreviewsonpage

Show reviews on the news page - if No, then reviews link goes to separate page.

Xnewsreviewsauthrequired

Yes means that reviews need to be authorized before they are shown on the site.

Xnewssummarylength

If xnewsfullstory = No, then this is how many characters should be shown in the summary.

Xnewsfullstory

Show the full story on the news page, or just a summary with a [read more] link.

XNewsReviewTemplate

This is the Template used to generate the email sent to the merchant when a review is added to a news item.

XNewsReviewMailtoMerchant

If set to Yes, the merchant will receive an email whenever a review is added to a news item.

XnewsTemplate

The Template used to display news items.

XNewsFullTemplate

This is the Template used to display the full news article.