Managing Marketplace News

The Contribution Lineup page allows you to manage the editing and linking of your content. The page is divided into three main sections:

• Not Yet Published Documents Tab
  Contains content that you created and saved, but not yet submitted to the Marketplace; this content is not accessible to other Marketplace users.

• Published Documents Tab
  Contains:

• Content that you submitted to the Marketplace via the Contribute Story page or the Not Yet Published Documents tab. This content is accessible to other Marketplace users.

• (For AP Content Enrichment participants only) Content that you submitted to the Digital Cooperative for content enrichment. If desired, you can publish (or refile) this content and make it accessible to other Marketplace users.

• Preview Section
  (If selected) Displays a preview of your news item.

Displaying the Lineups

To display the page, click Manage in the Navigation bar; then click Lineup under the Marketplace heading at left.

Content Icons

The icon beside each headline indicates the item's media type.

Scheduled News Items

Saved items (in the Not Yet Published Documents tab) that were scheduled for publishing have the Scheduled icon beside their creation dates. You can still edit these items, as you would other saved items, as well as change their publish dates.

Published News Types

News items in the Published Documents tab may be denoted with one or more icons in the Type column.

Saved News Actions

To publish or remove saved news items:

1. Select the corresponding check box(es) for the item(s) that you want to publish or delete.
   Result: The Commit button appears.

2. Click Commit.
   Result: A warning message appears.

3. Click OK or Cancel to abort the operation.
   Result: (If you selected OK) Published items are moved under Published Documents and is accessible in the Marketplace. Removed items are permanently deleted from AP Exchange.

To edit saved news items:

Click the item's content icon. AP Exchange automatically directs you to the Contribute Story page.

Saved and Published News Actions

To find news items:

Specify one or more words from the item's headline in the Keywords box; then click Search. For partial words, use the wildcard character (*) (Example: Professional *ball). The keywords found in headline are indicated in red.

To search for saved items, use the Keywords box under Not Yet Published Documents; to search for published items, use the Keywords box under Published Documents.

To preview a news item's full story:

Click the item's headline. The preview appears at right. Click Hide to remove the preview.

To page through news items (for sections with many items):

Click one of the page navigation buttons or select a page number from the Page menu.

The navigation buttons and Page menu do not appear if the number of results can fit on one page.

To change the number of news items on a page:

Select your desired page length (5, 10, 20, 50 or 100) from the Page size menu.

To refresh the news item display:

Click .

To sort the news items in the table:

Click a heading.

Published News Actions

To link published news items:

1. Select the Link options for the desired items. You may select two or more items in the same action.
   Result: The Link button appears.

2. Click Link.
   Result: A warning message appears.

3. Click OK to link the items or Cancel to abort the operation.
   Result: (If you selected OK) The items are linked and appear as suggested items within a linked item's Content window.

To see the linked content in the Contribution Lineup page, click an item's Linked Media link.

To refile (publish) news items:

Refiling publishes news items that were submitted for content enrichment (that may have been retrieved from a customer's Web site or news feeds) to the Marketplace, making them accessible from the Marketplace portlet.

• For a single item:

1. Click Publish to Marketplace.

Result: The Publish to Marketplace window appears.

2. Select who should have access to this item (Publish nationally, Publish to your state or Publish to your group).

3. (Optional) Select the organizations within your state that should not access your story.

4. Click Publish. It may take up to several minutes to publish your story.

• For multiple items:

1. Select the Refile options for the desired items.
   Result: The Refile button appears.

2. Click Refile.
   Result: The Publish to Marketplace window appears.

3. Follow steps 2 through 4 for individual news items.

To update a published news item:

Click Update. The Contribute Story page opens. Make necessary modifications to the item, summarizing these updates in the Notes box. Then, click Update at bottom.

A new item appears under Published Documents, with its headline prefixed with, "UPDATE."

Use this option to add information to the original story, such as a quote or breaking news details.

To correct a published news item:

Click Correct. The Contribute Story page opens. Make necessary modifications to the item, summarizing these corrections in the Notes box. Then, click Correct at bottom.

An additional news item appears in the Published Documents section, with its headline prefixed with, "CORRECTION."

Use this option to correct information that was stated in the original story, such as correcting a person's name or a date mentioned in the story.

To kill a news item:

Click Kill. The story's headline is prefixed with "KILL." You cannot update, correct or kill a killed story.

Use this option if you want to remove your news item from the Marketplace. The news item can still be retrieved from the home page with missing story text and/or a missing image.

To display a news item's linked items:

Click Linked Media.

Click the linked item's headline to display its preview.

To display statistics for a published item:

Click Stats.