Clicking on the Features Management icon of the
Administration Menu accesses the Feature Management page.
Clicking on Press Release on the Features Management page
accesses the Press Release Feature Management Page.
Several items need to be prepared before the feature can be
configured:
- The broadcast template and the Press Release Template
must be created.
- The Media Types must be defined.
- Media contacts should be imported or entered into the
Contact Database
- A sample biography and a sample closing statement
should be loaded.
- PR Media Type
Link - The PR Media Type Link located on the Press Release Manager Feature
Management page accesses the PR Media Types Management page. Administrative
visitors can add or delete Media Types. Each organization can customize PR
Media Types as it sees fit for its purposes. The Press Release input form
presents all the organization’s PR Media Types to a visitor entering a
press release for selection. Media Contact Records are designated to
specific Media Types on from the Contact Management page. Hence, a visitor
can choose to have a press release sent to only Business Editors, or only
Talk Show Hosts, or Newspapers, etc. or an combination.
Clicking on Add New Type
accesses the Media Type activate the Type entry field. 
Enter a new type into the field and
click Save 
and the new type is added to the list.
To delete a Media Type, click on
its name. It will appear in the Type field. Then click on Delete 
- Output Options
- At the time of this writing created Fax and Printed press release
functions are under development but not available even though they appear
on the page in preparation for implementation. Therefore, Fax and Printed
must be set to No or they will appear as options for those entering press
releases.
- Option
Selection Field - This field determines which fax delivery methods are
available to visitors using this feature. At the time of this writing
created Fax and Printed press release functions are under development but
not available even though they appear on the page in preparation for
implementation. Therefore, Fax and Printed must be set to No or they will
appear as options for those entering press releases.
- Unit Price
Field - If this field contains an amount, then visitors sending press
releases will be billed by the number of releases sent times the amount
set in this field. See the Financial Transactions Feature section to learn
more about this feature.
- Unit Cost
Field - This field is used by the Transactions Management feature for
certain cost containment functions. See the Financial Transactions Feature
section to learn more about this feature.
