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.

Before you begin

Role required: sp_admin or admin

Learn more about the news widgets: News articles

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Self-Service > Employee Center.
    The Employee Center home page is displayed.
  2. Press and hold the control key, right-click the News feed widget, and then select Instance Options.
  3. Configure the widget:
    Table 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 Enables employees to open other news articles from the Article detail page without refreshing the web 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.News feed widget list view
    • Grid: Arranges articles in a grid with a maximum three articles per row.News feed widget grid view
    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
  4. Click Save.