Watch a video overview of the Text to Speech tool Overview We are using the third-party service BeyondWords for text to speech generation. This service provides very “lifelike” audio and integrates well with the Sitecore CMS. For now, we are not enabling this for all articles across the site(s). There are two main reasons for …
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Uploading and linking PDF files
In the Body field, select the text to link to the PDF. Click on the Insert Sitecore Link icon (directly to the left of the “Insert Media” icon) IF THE PDF HAS ALREADY BEEN UPLOADED TO THE MEDIA SERVER, SKIP TO STEP 11 Click on the Media Items tab. Click on the UMC Media folder …
Deleting Articles
While there is a big DELETE button on the Home tab of the content editor, it does not fully delete an article. To remove an article completely from the front end, one of the parent buckets must be published as well. First, you must locate where the article lives before deleting it. In the content …
Find all content with a specific tag
This is for finding all articles that are associated with a specific tag. In the content editor, navigate to the section you wish to search on, e.g. for news articles, go to sitecore -> Content -> UMNS -> news In the search field in the right-side panel, paste the following: custom:umc_parsed_article_tag_name_lowercase_list| Immediately after the vertical …
Friendly Urls
Site Redirects LocationS All three websites have their own redirect folder that holds all redirects (internal and external links). Here are the paths for all the sites: Resourceumc.org ResourceUMC > Resource Redirects UMC.org UMC > UMC Redirects UMNews.org UMNS > Data > UMNS Redirects Creating a friendly URL with non-English characters Create a simple redirect, …