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FAQ Widget

Written by Luke Shuck | Oct 24, 2025 6:45:37 PM

Purpose

Display frequently asked questions and their answers

 

Features

  • Summary list of the Question/Answer pairs for the FAQ’s 
  • Maximum number of items to be displayed can be set 
  • Supports both a summary view and a full page view 

Details

  • Widget Name: FaqWidget 
  • Available With:  Release 4.1 and Above
  • Content App Type:  Slider
  • Content Type:  FAQ 
  • Content App Name:  FAQ 
  • List Name:  FAQ_AK 
  • Recommended Images Sizes:  N/A 
  • Dependencies:  SharePoint

Content

Title  Question that displays in FAQ 
ItemActive  FAQ item is active 
ItemOrder  FAQ item order 
Answer  Answer to the FAQ question 

Properties

List is on Root Site  When checked, the widget references the list on parent/root site collection.
Selected list columns  Columns in the SharePoint list that the widget is utilizing, OOTB ID,Title,Answer,ItemActive
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.
List Name  Name of the SharePoint list that contains the data to be displayed for this widget instance 
viewxml  XML for the view - Query used to pull in and sort the data.

The number of items to pull in and display is determined by the "RowLimit" value (in this example 20) see below

<View><Query><OrderBy><FieldRef Name='ItemOrder' Ascending='TRUE'></FieldRef></OrderBy></Query><RowLimit>20</RowLimit></View>
Cache Interval  Sets the time, in minutes, 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 via Site Creator

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.
Displayed Title  Title that is displayed on the widget

Views

View Name:  FAQ-Modern
View Description:    Condensed view for frequently asked questions with a drop-down for answers
View Preview:
  

View Name:  FAQ Page-Modern, similar to FAQ-Modern often found on a home page except there is no "All Questions"


View Name:  Subsite-Home-FAQ 
View Description:    Condensed view for frequently asked questions with a drop-down for answers and link to "All Questions"
View Preview:

View Name:  Subsite-FAQPage - Similar to Subsite-Home-FAQ except there is no "All Questions"
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