Purpose
To display a single featured News Item with a link to the item's detail page.
Features
- Displays a single news item from a list as a hyperlinked image with a display title overlay
- Selection of the new item to display is determined by tags in the widget instance
- Can be set to display the latest content with a specific tag
- Can be targeted based on the current user’s department, city or AD group
- Item is hyperlinked using the FriendlyURL to the dynamic display page for the content
Details
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- Widget Name: CompanyNewsHeroWidget
- 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 become active on the site |
| 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 = AnnouncementTitle,Image,Category,FriendlyUrl |
| 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. For this use, the method to specify is “ShowHeroItem” |
| tagcallbackmethod | Value for this should be GetTagAsValue |
| isasynccallback | Value for this type of instance = false |
| viewxml | N/A for this type of instance |
| callbacktype | Value for this type of instance = customdataload |
| column | Specifies the list metadata column name that should be used for matching the "tag" value to determine which content displays |
| tag | tag – this value is used when you want to display content based on a specific metadata tag that has been applied in the "column" specified. In the example above, the widget is looking for content that has been tagged with the term CORPORATE. |
| featured | If checked, only items marked as "featured" will be shown |
| 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 = cache for specified time (secs) |
| orderby | N/A |
| orderdirection | N/A |
| uicallbackmethod | N/A |
| dependencies | This field designates if this instance depends on any other widget definition. In this case, it depends upon the "GenericListWidget" |
Views
View Name: HeroPage-Hero View Description: Displays a single Company News Item with a hyperlinked photo.
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