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Breaking News Widget
Purpose
Displays the 3 most recent news articles
Features
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- Allows for an unlimited number of news items to display (defaults to 3 news items)
- Selection of the news item to display is determined by tags in the widget instance
- Can be set to display the latest content with a specific tag or display all content without tagging
- Expiration dates automatically remove content from the site
- Mobile-ready via Responsive Web Design
Details
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- Widget Name: BreakingNewsWidget
- Available With: Release 4.5 and Above
- Content App Type: Author
- Content Type: BreakingNews
- Content App Name: News – Breaking News
- List Name: BreakingNews_AK
- Recommended Images Sizes: 850 x 450 px
- Dependencies: SharePoint
Content
| Title | Title that will display in the Content App list |
| Body | Rich text that will makeup the body of the Breaking News article |
| Expires | Date and time when the breaking news article will become inactive and no longer display |
| StaticUrl | Url that will be used to display the Breaking News article detail page |
| Image | Image that will used for the Breaking News article |
| Category | Metadata category assigned to the Breaking News article for tagging |
| PublishedBy | Name of user who is getting credit for the Breaking News article |
| JobTitle | One line of text that will be used for the Publisher’s JobTitle |
| FriendlyUrl | After the article has been SAVED this field will be auto populated. If you select this field then the article will open in a new tab for preview. This field is what you copy and past into a quicklink type app to add the article to the site navigation. |
Properties
| Selected List columns | Columns in the SharePoint list that the widget is utilizing.
OOTB default: ID,Title,Image,Category,FriendlyUrl |
| Cache Interval | Sets the time, in seconds, that the data should be saved in the local browser cache of the current user.
· 0 = Do not cache the data for this widget · -1 = Use the default caching strategy set in the Digital Workplace configuration Whole Number = Cache for specific time, in minutes |
| Category | Metadata Category. Can be used for displaying list items with indicated category |
| List Name | Name of the SharePoint list that contains the data to be displayed for this widget instance. |
| # of Items to Display | Number of news items to be displayed on the page |
| Order By | N/A |
| Order Direction | Order the list items by ascending or descending order based on last modified time |
| Function to call before binding the UI events | OOTB -Blank (used for widget expansion): Name of the function called after the UI has been rendered to the screen |
| isasynccallback | True if the callbackmethod should be run asynchronously |
| Function to call after fetching data | OOTB -Blank (used for widget expansion): Name of the function called after data has been fetched by the widget. |
| Site Collection URL | Site collection URL where the SharePoint list defined in "List Name" can be found. |
Views
View Name: BreakingNews
View Description: Horizontal left to right stacked card layout that displays the news article featured image, title, and tag.
View Name: BreakingNews - Modern
View Description: An updated version of the BreakingNews view with new CSS and slick styling.