Latest Featured News Widget
Purpose
Displays the latest news or latest featured news from the associated SharePoint list in the OOTB case, from the FoundationNews_AK list.
Features
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- Quickly surface the latest news or the latest featured news.
Details
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- Widget Name: LatestFeaturedNewsWidget
- Available With: Release 4.8
- Content App Type: Author
- Content Type: AkuminaNews and AkuminaNewsExperience
- Content App Name: Company News
- List Name: FoundationNews_AK
- Recommended Images Sizes: N/A
- Dependencies: SharePoint
Content
Title | Title of the item in the SharePoint list, Title is also used in the static column. |
Body | The detail content of the new article. |
Expires | Content can be set to expire, in which case the content will not display on the site. |
Start Date | Date in which the content will appear on the site, also the date that is displayed on the news article. |
Expires | Content can be set to expire, in which case the content will not display on the site. |
AnnouncementTitle | Title that is displayed on the article on the front end site. |
Summary | Summary data that can be display on this widget under the title. |
Seo-Description | Search Engine Optimization – description |
Seo-Keywords | Search Engine Optimization – keywords |
Seo-Title | Search Engine Optimization – title |
Featured | This article can be marked as a featured article |
HubNewsCategory | Category for tagging the article |
PublishedBy | People picker allowing the user to select a user who has published this article. The Published by is displayed only on the news detail page. |
Job Title | title of the Author of the article, only displayed on the news detail. |
Properties
Displayed Title |
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List is on Root Site | When checked, the widget references the list on parent/root site collection. | |
List Name | Name of the SharePoint list that contains the data to be displayed for this widget instance. | |
Site Collection URL | Site collection URL where the SharePoint list defined in “List Name” can be found. | |
viewxml | XML to retrieve data for display on the widget | |
Cache Interval |
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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 | |
Selected list columns |
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Items/Page | Number of items that display in the widget | |
Featured | Boolean value, if set to true then will display items tagged as featured and latest. If false then the latest (based upon start date) news articles will be displayed | |
Icon | Icon that displays next to widget Title | |
Summary Limit | Max amount of characters to be shown in an items summary | |
View All Title | Title for the view all button, example: hub.news.myannouncements.viewmore | |
View All Link | Link for the view all button, example: newslist.aspx | |
Widget Height | Determines the widget’s height (not used in the default view) | |
Order By | The internal column name for the that the items are ordered by, example: Start_x0020_Date or Created | |
Order Direction | Order to display the content from the list, ascending (ASC) or descending (DESC). For latest article, this should be set to DESC order. | |
dependencies | Widget that this widget depends on, in this case the GenericListWidget |
Views
View Name: Default
View Description: Displays news cards, complete with image, title, summary and start date.
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