With GP Travel Enterprise, you can create news, share links and publish tips which are displayed on the Home page. A user can see them upon logging in the system:
Viewing News
To view the list of news that have already been published and modify them,
On the General settings menu, click News:
On the News page.
To view a piece of news, click its title. (See group 1 in the figure below.)
To edit a piece of news, click its title and then in the Message window, click Edit.
To send a piece of news via e-mail, click its title and then in the Message window, click Send the news by e-mail.
To deactivate a piece of news so that is not displayed on the Home page but remains in the news directory with the possibility of further restoration, click the news title (see group 1 in the figure below), then click Edit to switch to editing mode and clear the Active check box. the piece of news is deactivated and not displayed on the Home page.
To delete a piece of news, click delete opposite the required entry. (See group 2 in the figure below.)
To change the order of displaying, click the arrow opposite the required item to pull it up or down. (See group 3 in the figure below.)
Creating News
To create a news article to display on the Home page,
On the General settings menu, click News:
On the News page, click Create. The New message window appears:
Click the required language to expand the tab.
Enter the title of the message and the text itself.
Set the availability of the message:
For all: the news is displayed to all system users, including clients of your partners.
For clients: the news is displayed to all direct clients of your company. The news is not displayed to the clients of your partners.
For me: the news is displayed only to the users of your company.
Selected sales channels: the news is displayed to the clients whom you manually select. To add a client, click Add. The Sales channel window appears. From the drop-down, select the required sales channel (e.g. corporate clients) and select the check boxes opposite the required clients. Click Save.
Click Save.
Click Close to return to the list of news.
Downloading the List of News
To download the list of news to your computer,
On the General settings menu, click News:
On the News page, click (Excel button). The list of news entries is downloaded to your computer as an Excel file.
Creating Links
In order to attract attention of customers to your offers you can place banners on the home page of the system.
To view the list of links that have already been published and modify them,
On the General settings menu, click Links:
On the Links page, click Create. The New tip window appears:
Click the required language bar to expand the form.
Enter the title and the message. Note that the title you enter will be displayed only in the list of created links and not displayed to customers.
To add an image to the link,
click (Insert picture button). The Insert/edit image window appears:
Enter the URL address where the image is stored, add image description and title.
To configure the alignment, borders and other image properties, go to the Appearance and Advanced tabs.
To add a link to a picture or to a word,
click the picture or select the word/word combination and click (Link button). The Insert/edit link window appears:
Type the URL-address of your web-site in the Link URL box.
In the Target box select Open in new window (blank) to open the web-site you are referring to in the separate browser window:
Click Insert.
Specify for whom the banner is displayed:
For all: the link is displayed to all system users, including clients of your partners.
For clients: the link is displayed to all direct clients of your company. The news is not displayed to the clients of your partners.
For me: the news is displayed only to the users of your company.
Selected sales channels: the link is displayed to the clients whom you manually select. To add a client, click Add. The Sales channel window appears. From the drop-down, select the required sales channel (e.g. corporate clients) and select the check boxes opposite the required clients. Click Save.
Click Save, and then click Close to return to the list of links. Created links are displayed on the Home page:
Viewing the List of Links
To view the list of links that have already been published and modify them,
On the General settings menu, click Links:
On the Links page,
To view or edit a link, click its title (see group 1 in the figure below).
To deactivate a link, click its title, then click Edit and clear the Active check box. The deactivated links are not deleted permanently, they are moved to archive with the possibility of further restoration.
To go to the web-site connected to the link, click the link in the Content column (see group 2 in the figure below).
To delete a link, click delete opposite the required entry (see group 3 in the figure below).