Company News Hero Widget
Purpose
To display Company News Items in a stacked order.
Features
- Provides a summary list of the items in the news list
- Displays and Orders the items based on their Start Date
- Does not display items that have reached their Expiration Date
- Includes a link to the full news listing page
Details
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- Widget Name: CompanyNewsListWidget
- Available With: Release 4.1 and Above
- Content App Type: AkuminaNews
- Content Type: Author
- Content App Name: Company News
- List Name: CompanyNews_AK
- Recommended Images Sizes: 760 x 500 px
- Dependencies: SharePoint
Content
| Title | Title that will display in the Content App list |
| Body | Rich text that will makeup the body of the News article |
| Expires | Date and time when the news article will become inactive and no longer display |
| Start Date | Date that the article will |
| AnnouncementTitle | Title that will be displayed for the news Item |
| Summary | Summary of the news item |
| Image | Image that will be used for the new item |
| Featured | Checkbox to set it item is featured or not |
| NewsCategory | Managed Metadata for tagging |
| Friendly URL | Friendly URL of the detail page |
Properties
| isroot | If false, the list which contains the data for this instance is on the current site.
If true, the list which contains the data is on the root of the Site Collection. |
| selectfields | The data fields (columns) from the SharePoint list that the widget should retrieve for use in this instance.
For this example, the selectfields = ID,Created,Image,FriendlyUrl,Start_x0020_Date,AnnouncementTitle |
| ispaging | If false, the widget will not display paging controls
If true, the widget will display paging controls (if implemented by developer in widget) |
| pagesize | Sets the number of items to display on each page IF paging is enabled. |
| listname | Name of the SharePoint list that contains the data to be displayed for this instance. |
| callbackmethod | The callbackmethod is set by the developer of the widget. |
| isasynccallback | Value for this type of instance = false |
| viewxml | The viewxml contains any special manipulation of the data that needs to be done by the widget BEFORE it gets render by the specified view. In this case, the viewxml is set to the following string:
<View><Query><OrderBy><FieldRef Name=’Start_x0020_Date’ Ascending=’FALSE’></FieldRef></OrderBy><Where><And><Leq><FieldRef Name=’Start_x0020_Date’ ></FieldRef><Value IncludeTimeValue=’TRUE’ Type=’DateTime’><Today ></Today></Value></Leq><Or><Geq><FieldRef Name=’Expires’ ></FieldRef><Value IncludeTimeValue=’TRUE’ Type=’DateTime’><Today ></Today></Value></Geq><IsNull><FieldRef Name=’Expires’ ></FieldRef></IsNull></Or></And></Where></Query><RowLimit>4</RowLimit></View> Note that the number of items (Rows) to display on the site is specified in the <RowLimit>4</RowLimit> argument. |
| callbacktype | Value for this type of instance = customdataload |
| dataloadproperties | N/A |
| cache interval | Sets the time (in secs) 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 specified time (secs) |
| orderby | N/A |
| orderdirection | N/A |
| uicallbackmethod | N/A |
| displaytemplateurl | N/A |
| dependencies | GenericListWidget |
Views
View Name: NewsDetail-SideContent
View Description: Displays Company News Items in a stacked view
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