Creating Weekly Updates in Pop
This post describes how to create weekly updates in pop, including a description of how to upload and include screenshots in your updates.
To create a new weekly update
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In the main navigation bar, go to Team > Team Updates
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Click the Create New Update button to launch the new update dialog
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In the new update dialog, select your team from the dropdown menu
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Select a date in the calendar widget within the week for which you would like to provide an update. It’s important that you get the week & year right. Due to usability issues with the app, failure do so will make your new update record hard to find.
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From here you can either
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Put your update in the markdown editor within the new update dialog, or,
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Close the update dialog, navigate to the week of the update, click edit on your new record and then edit the update via an editor with more screen real estate
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Adding Screenshots to Pop
To add screenshots to pop for use in your weekly updates:
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Go Teams > Screenshots from the main navigation bar
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Click Add Screenshot
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Enter a screenshot title
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Click the Choose File button and in the file selector dialog, select an imae file that you would like to add to pop
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Click Upload
Adding Screenshots to Your Updates
Top add screenshots previously uploaded to pop to a weekly update:
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Navigate to Teams > Screenshots via the main navigation
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Click Copy to Clipboard link for the screenshot you would like to include. This will bring up a dialog showing the fully selected URL of the screenshot
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Copy the URL to the clipboard (ex. using Command + C)
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Next, navigate to the editor view for the update in which you would like to include the screenshot
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Place the cursor in the editor at the point in the update that you would like to include the screenshot
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Add the image at the location of the cursor in markdown image format form “
.” This step can also be completed with the assistance of the image button in the markdown editor.
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To preview your image within the update, click the Toggle Preview button in the markdown editor.
The image is now included in your weekly update.