Logging onto the system
When you go to the ATSC admin site (www.atsc-va.org/admin), enter your ID and password (if you can’t remember your login information, please contact the ATSC webmaster). A page will open with a list of the web pages.
Click your team’s name (under Teams, shows in blue) and the admin view of the team name page will open.
Adding Content
All content on the site is added as a new "article."
Each "article" you want to appear on the main part of your page should be entered as a new center article.
To create a new center article, click on the green box in the upper right corner. To make changes to an existing article, click on the "edit" box just above the headline.
Main Story vs. Short Story
If it is a long article, you may wish to have only the first 4-6 lines showing on the main center page, with the rest available through a "continue" link. To do this, type the entire article in the "Main Text" box. Copy and past the first few lines (whatever you want to show on the main page) into the "Short Text" box. That way you can have space for several articles on the page and still be able to put in longer stories or more information.
If you only have content in the Main Story box, that is the content that will appear on the homepage and no "continue" link will be present on screen.
Side Articles
You can also add side articles through the top green box on the left, or create an outside link (perhaps to your league’s division’s scores and standings page, or schedule page). For instance, you might want to have the team’s practice schedule as a side article that you can update and people can check periodically.
Setting on When and Where Content Displays
You arrange the articles in order using the SEQ box. The first article should show as SEQ 10; this should be the one that shows the coach and manager’s names and email links (already set up, but you may need to put in 10 as the SEQ). Any subsequent articles should have a SEQ number ending in 0 but higher than 10 (i.e., 20, 30, 40, etc.). The SEQ is how you order the items on the page.
After you’ve submitted an article, you can click on the yellow "change settings" box on the admin view of your page to select between options about timing.
If you want the article to appear as soon as you finish it, and run indefinitely, you do not need to do anything with the settings.
However, you can choose among several options.
If you make the article "pending", it will appear on your admin page but not on the public view. In this way you can prepare an article in advance, or you can be working on an article that’s not ready to go live yet. When it’s ready, click "active" instead of pending, and it will appear on the public view.
You can also choose the date/time you want the article to start appearing, and when you want it to stop, by choosing "activate date range" and filling in the appropriate dates times. This is somewhat inexact (doesn’t appear and disappear right to the minute requested), so be flexible. Also, it doesn’t seem to work too well if both start and stop times are on the same date.
Any article deactivated via the date range option will go to the archives after it comes off the public view. For other articles that you’re ready to pull off your public view, you can just delete them, in which case they’ll disappear forever. Or, you can select "archive" from the list on the left that also contains "center article" and "side article" and the article will be archived so it can be resurrected later if desired.
