---
title: Content Block Widget
description: Content Block Widget
---

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# [Content Block Widget](https://41730169.hs-sites.com/community/content-block-widget)

 Written by [Luke Shuck](https://41730169.hs-sites.com/community/author/luke-shuck) | Oct 24, 2025 7:14:00 PM

## Purpose

 

## Features

- Optional header bar supporting web part title and icon
- Full rich text support, editable using AppManager's WYSIWYG editor.
- Alert style option which changes control display and icon to call additional attention to the content
- Expiration date to automatically remove content block from site, if desired
- Items displayed are security trimmed based on specific site user's SharePoint permissions
- Mobile-ready via Responsive Web Design

## Details

- **Widget Name: **ContentBlockWidget
- **Available With:  **Release 4.0 to 4.5 FS'19
- **Content App Type: **N/A
- **Content Type:** N/A
- **Content App Name: **N/A
- **List Name: **N/A
- **Recommended Images Sizes: **N/A
- **Dependencies:  **SharePoint

## Content

N/A

## Properties

| List Name | Name of the SharePoint list that contains the data to be displayed for this instance. |
| --- | --- |
| site wide alert message | This text message displays on the page where the text is set on the snippet.  This value would rarely be used as a site wide alert, since a better approach is to use a control item across all pages that would be set on the ak:instructionset. |
| disablealert | If false, the alert message will not be displayed If true, the alert message will be displayed |
| Enable preview | Value = false for this widget |
| dynamic preview | Value = true for this widget |
| Displayed title | If a value is entered, then the title will appear on the header of the App. |
| Icon | Selects the icon that is displayed to the left of the widget title. |
| instruction set | Path to the IDS list if it exists.  This value will be found on the Control App item.  Example for a site wide alert message highlighted in yellow:   |
| 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) |

## Views

**View Name:  **ContentBlock

**View Description:  **A basic view for the Content Block widget. Views are different based on what CSS code is associated with the Content Block

** ****View Preview:**

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