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Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Breadcrumbs help you see where you are on the eIntranet site. The breadcrumb in the figure indicates that it is the Messages from Management page in the News and Events area. Breadcrumbs also are navigation links. You can click Home to go to the home page, or other links on the breadcrumb trail to go to those pages. Use the Search box to look for items on the Messages from Management page. This box of links connects you to important or often-used content. The text “Messages from Management" displays using the ei_Header widget. You can name it anything you want. Send a link to this content to a person by email. Displays a link to the content. A teaser shows the first few lines. You can sort the content by clicking on the column titles. Users rate the content and a cumulative average rating displays. Displays how many times people have viewed this content. Displays when the content was last edited. Add a new item by dragging and dropping (or uploading) and existing file. Add a new item by entering it in an editor and publish it immediately. Add a new page that is under the News page. Clicking this opens a Workarea wizard that requires you to specify set up parameters. Logout of page editing mode. Click Department Wizard to create or delete a department for your intranet. View the Site Map of your intranet. Opens the Welcome Guide page. Enters the Workarea of the CMS400.NET, which gives you powerful customization of the web site beyond the "out-of-the-box" eIntranet V2. See the consolidated Ektron CMS400.NET Reference for information about the functionality that created the eIntranet V2. Use the Search box to look for items on the eIntranet site. You can click on the tabs below to search the entire site, or search for colleagues, groups, or activities. Click here to go to your inbox to read your messages. Opens your profile page where you can customize your intranet information. Use the Workarea to search the Intranet site. Login to create and edit content, such as adding a new department page, and customizing your eIntranet through the CMS400.NET Workarea. Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Breadcrumbs help you see where you are on the eIntranet site. Breadcrumbs also are navigation links. You can click Home to go to the home page, or other links on the breadcrumb trail to go to those pages. Typing a term in this Search box looks for content on the Sales page and the pages that are under its departmental domain. Create links to important or often-used content that are valuable to the Sales department. This content block uses the ei_Collection widget to show a list of links to content selected from the CMS400.NET. Communicate important dates and events to members of the Sales department using the ei_UpcomingEvents widget to show a list of scheduled calendar events. Display news items that affect the Sales department using the ei_ListSummary widget to show a list of content. In this case, the type of content is News with the newest entry at the top. You can choose to automatically scroll the content. Recognize outstanding talent with a picture and some data. This content block uses the ei_PhotoOfTheDay widget with the caption set as "Sales Person of the Month." Show the activity of users and groups inside your eIntranet (not just your department) with whom you have connected using the ei_ActivityStream widget . You can choose the types of information you want to see from your colleagues and groups. Display the members of the Sales department using the ei_CommunityGroupMembers widget. Administrators can add, remove, and invite others to the group. This content block uses the ei_UpcomingEvents widget to show a list of scheduled calendar events. Use this to communicate important dates and events to your employees. Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Use the Workarea to search the Intranet site. Login to create and edit content, such as adding a new department page, and customizing your eIntranet through the CMS400.NET Workarea. This content block uses the ei_ActivityStream widget to show the activity of users and groups inside your eIntranet with whom you have connected. you can choose the types of information you want to see from your colleagues and groups. This content block uses the ei_PhotoOfTheDay widget to display an image file, scaled to fit. Highlight a story or event, and add a caption. People can print and email the posted picture. This content block uses the Twitter Feed widget to show status updates from people you have connected to using Twitter. Use this to stay connected with your customers. Set it to show tweets related to your company and stay informed about what others are saying about your product and services. This content block uses the ei_RecentBlogPost widget to display content entered into a blog. A teaser appears with the first few lines of the blog with a link to the blog page for the whole story. This content block uses the ei_Collection widget to show a list of links to content selected from the CMS400.NET. Create links to important or often-used content. This content block uses the ei_ContentBlock widget to show any content from the CMS400.NET. You also can add ratings for the content, links to Add to Favorites, Email, and Print, and comments submitted by logged-in visitors. This list shows important phone numbers. This content block uses the ei_ListSummary widget to show a list of content. In this case, the type of content is News with the newest entry at the top. You can choose to autmatically scroll the content. This content block uses the ei_ListSummary widget to show a list of content. In this case, the type of content is Announcements sorted in descending order: (Traffic, Pizza, Parking).

News & Events > Messages from Management

The default Messages from Management page (shown in the following figure) in the News & Events area is where you to link to information that management wants to communicate with everyone. Hover over a content block in the following figure to see a description of how the Messages from Management page is constructed. 

The following table describes each area of the page.
Block Function
Site Navigation Tools
(upper right)		 Use the Site Navigation tools to search the Ektron eIntranet site.  You also can log out of page edit mode, launch the Department Wizard, view the site map, go to the Welcome Guide page, and enter the Workarea of the CMS400.NET.
Site Navigation Menus
(upper left)		 Use Site Navigation menus to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet.
Breadcrumb bar Breadcrumbs help you see where you are on the Ektron eIntranet site. The breadcrumb in the figure indicates that it is the Messages from Management page in the News and Events area. Breadcrumbs also are navigation links. You can click Home to go to the home page, or other links on the breadcrumb trail to go to those pages.
Quick link navigation block

This box of links connects you to important or often-used content.
Messages from Management collection block

Display messages and management-related information and make them available to your employees. You can sort the content by clicking on the column titles and you can give each item a star rating. For information about its properties, see eI_Collection Widget.
To add a file (such as a Microsoft Office or Adobe PDF document), follow these steps:
  1. Click Add Asset ().
  2. Drag and drop one or more files from a Windows Explorer into the dialog box (or click the File Upload tab to browse for the file you want). Your selection is added to the top of the collection list.
To add HTML content, follow these steps:
  1. Click Add Content ().
  2. Enter your content in the editor that appears and save it.

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