January 13, 2026
Adding items to Launch Pad Widget
Learn how to add items via My Apps Content App
For Foundation Site Installations that are not Hive, please refer to widget documentation here.
To provide a detailed and immersive News experience.
| Title | Title that will display in the Content App list and on the News Detail widget |
| Summary | The "Summary" text in bold, displaying below the image on the article page. |
| Body | The body text of the article |
| Tags | Termstore Taxonomy Tags that can be linked to the article and leveraged in Searching relevant content. |
| Departments | Termstore Taxonomy Tags that can be linked to the article and leveraged in Searching relevant content. |
| Region | Termstore Taxonomy Tags that can be linked to the article and leveraged in Searching relevant content. |
| Featured | Checkbox, if selected then the Featured Tag will be displayed on the content. |
| Publisher | Publisher of the news article, they will appear on the News Detail page |
| Contributors | People picker set of site users who have contributed to this article. |
| Image | The selected image will display with the news article |
| Image Description | Text description of the image to be leveraged for accessibility/screen readers. By default, the image Url, but should be updated to a description of the picture |
| Video: Web Address(URL) | Web address for a video to be displayed on the article page as well as on other widgets such as NewsWidget and CuratedNewsWidget. For additional details, please see instructions here. |
| Video: Link Title(URL) | Link Title of the video to be displayed, to be leveraged for accessibility/screen readers. By default, the video Url, but should be updated to a description of the video |
| Is Akumina Page | Checked by default to Akumina page link |
| Thumbnail URL | Alternate Image used on listing article widgets such as NewsWidget or CuratedNewsWidget if not set then the Image will be used on those widgets. |
| Published Date | Date in which the content will appear on the site, also the date that is displayed on the news article. |
| Archive Date | Date in which the content will be archived from the site |
| StaticUrl | What will be added to the site Url to create the friendly Url for the news article |
| Shareable | When checked, allows for external sharing of article to twitter and linkedin |
| Share Url | The external shareable Url |
| Widget Framework | react - this is the framework this widget was built in |
| List Name | Name of the SharePoint list that contains the data to be displayed for this widget instance. |
| Select List Columns | Columns in the SharePoint list that the widget is utilizing. Example: ID,Created,Title,Body,
Featured,Image,Video,Modified,Publish_x0020_Date,Region, Departments,Tags,ReadTime,ContentTypeId,FriendlyUrl, Archive_x0020_Date,Share_x0020_URL,Shareable,Summary,Thumbnail_x0020_URL, Publisher/ID,Publisher/EMail,Publisher/Title,Author/ID,Author/EMail,Author/Title,Author/ID,Author/EMail,Author /Title,Contributors/ID,Contributors/EMail,Contributors/Title |
| Expanded list columns | These are columns in the SharePoint that need expansion example: Publisher,Author,Contributors |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |