Editing the Headline and Text of an Article

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Modified on: Tue, 6 Dec, 2022 at 1:11 PM

Many of our reporting options allow you to include the headline of the article and a snippet of text in the report. If you would like to modify the auto-generated text to the text of your choosing follow the instructions below.

NOTE: Your username must be set to a System Administrator in order to see this capability. 

Next to the text snippet and headline you will see a  pencil icon as detailed in the image below. If the pencil icon is blue, the headline or snippet can be edited. However, for content from Lexis Nexis, Twitter, and CEDROM, the pencil icon will be gray indicating that the content is not editable due to copyright requirements.

In the examples, below, the pencil option in blue indicating that headline and text snippet can be edited.

The example below is from a print article brought in from Lexis Nexis.  In this case, the pencil icon is greyed out indicating that the content cannot be edited due to copyright restrictions.

Editing Headline and Snippet Text:

To edit the text of a headline, click on the blue pencil icon next to the headline, the following will appear.

You can change the headline to your desired text and click Save.  Once you click Save the new headline will now appear in the system as well as be updated in any reporting that you do.

NOTE: Once you click save, there is no way to revert back to the original headline. 

If the snippet is editable and has a blue pencil icon, you are able to change the text snippet.  In order to change the text snippet, you will need to click on the blue pencil icon next to the Text field.  Once you select it, you will get the following pop up.

Once you have updated the text, click save. Remember, the snippet that will generate in any report will be anywhere from 130-140 characters.