Adding Media to MyAbilities

• In one tab open the news article.
• In another tab open the Media list. https://abilitiescouncil.sharepoint.com/sites/Communications_MyAbilities/Lists/Media/AllItems.aspx
• In another tab open the Document library. https://abilitiescouncil.sharepoint.com/sites/Communications_MyAbilities/MediaDocs/Forms/AllItems.aspx
• On the news page,
o Save an image to your computer. If there is no image that you like you can create one or find something else online. I have EvanBray, CTV News and Global News images in the Document Library.
o CTRL+P to open the print dialog then Print the page to PDF as a backup. In the settings you can set the Margins to minimum and turn off Headers and Footers and background graphics. I’ll sometimes even print only certain pages if there is only ads on some pages. Save/Print the page to your files.
o Copy the article Title and note the date it was published.
• On the Document Library tab,
o Click Create or Upload then Files Upload.
o Add the PDF created previously.
• On the Media List tab,
o Click on the proper Gallery on the right (Gallery 2026) or Add a View with the name of the new year if there isn’t one available.
o Click Add New Item.
o Paste the news article title to the Title field.
o Enter the date of the Media into MediaDate.
o Click Add an Image and browse to the image you had saved previously.
o Copy the URL of the article from the News page and paste it into the LinkAddress field.
o On the Document Library tab click the … next to the document you added and select Copy Link.
o On the Link Created window click Copy.
o Paste this into the PDFBackup field on the Media List tab.
o Save