Modify the News feed widget
The News feed widget displays articles on company news and announcements. All news, Other news, and Related news are instances of the News feed widget.
Vorbereitungen
Role required: sp_admin or admin
Learn more about the news widgets: News articles
Prozedur
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Navigate to All > Self-Service > Employee Center.
The Employee Center home page is displayed.
- Press and hold the control key, right-click the News feed widget, and then select Instance Options.
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Configure the widget:
Hinweis:Admins have an additional configuration option to enable or disable a degraded or normal experience for the News Feed Widget to help during high traffic events.Hinweis:News can be directed to other widget instances, provided that the content is published within the News Feed widget. The targeted news will automatically appear on the designated widget, eliminating the need to configure any content assigned to that widget.
Tabelle : 1. Widget configuration options Widget option Description Load Async Loads widget data in the background. If you select this option, the Employee Center homepage will appear even if the News widget hasn't finished loading. Show title Option to display the news article header title Title Title of the widget Show thumbnail Displays a thumbnail image for each news article Show subheadline Option to display the news article subheadline Inline loading The article reading page (cd_news_article) enables employees to open other news articles from the Article detail page without refreshing the entire page.
Hinweis:This is only intended to be used on the article reading page.Enable grid/list controls Displays an option for the user to switch between a grid and list view of news articles Default view Sets the default view for news articles: - List: Arranges articles in a vertical list.
- Grid: Arranges articles in a grid with a maximum three articles per row.
Show categories Option to show or hide the assigned categories Pagination type How users navigate through news articles. The choices are: - Dotted: Displays navigable dots representing each page of articles.
- Numbered: Displays navigable page numbers.
- Call to action: Displays a button with a call to action link. For example "View all news" which redirects users to the News Center page.
- Show more: Displays a "Show more" button which reveals all the news articles when clicked.
Number of items per page Maximum number of articles to display (system maximum is 500 articles) Call to action: Text Text for the call to action link. Select the Call to action layout to display this element. Call to action: Page ID The page where to redirect users who click on the call to action link Default thumbnail image Select an image to display when a news article doesn't have a thumbnail image Allow empty state Allows the widget to appear if there are no published news articles Degraded experience Option to enable or disable a degraded or normal experience for the News Feed Widget to help during high traffic events.
- List: Arranges articles in a vertical list.
- Click Save.