Highlights
The dynamic slideshow for your most important news within the SharePoint intranet.
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The dynamic slideshow for your most important news within the SharePoint intranet.
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What is Highlights
Highlights is the news web part that allows you to dynamically showcase your company's news.
You can display various types of news in this web part, and the "Highlights" title can be customized according to your preference.
News can be tagged and are presented with an automatic slideshow. You can choose whether to display them at a glance:
Web part title
Show description
Show likes and comments
Show news author
Show publication date
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If your page is not already in edit mode, click Edit at the top right of the page.
Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter Highlights to quickly find and select the web part.
The layout settings allows you to customize the appearance of your application by adjusting various layout settings.
By opening this first configuration, you will see the following options:
Do you want to hide the background? You can choose to hide or display the webpart background. The default setting is “No”. This means that, by default, the webpart is characterized by a white background. If you enable this option, the white card background will be completely removed, allowing the content appear directly on the page. As a result, the webpart will be transparent, showing either the selected background image or the chosen SharePoint page color.
Do you want to hide the background shadow? You can choose whether to show or hide the background shadow. The default setting is “No”. This means that, by default, the webpart is characterized by a subtle depth effect that can make the webpart stand out more against the rest of the page. If you enable this option, the shadow behind the background will be removed, giving the web part a flatter, cleaner look without any depth.
Select the type of background shadow If you decide to set the background shadow, a further configuration will appear and you can select the style from High Contrast, Light, or Dark options.
If you select High contrast, this option creates a strong, bold shadow effect that provides a high level of contrast between the background and the content.
By choosing the Light background shadow, it will create a soft and subtle effect, giving a more delicate and gentle depth to the background.
Finally, the Dark background shadow style provides a darker, more intense effect, adding depth and emphasizing the background even more
Do you want to hide the title? Here you can select whether to show the webpart title or hide it. If set to visible, the web part title will appear on the left side.
Enter the application title Thanks to this configuration, you can customize the application title. If you keep it blank, SharePoint will show the default title “Highlights” at the top left angle of the webpart.
These settings allow you to specify the data sources to be linked to the web part. In this section, you can also select the specific sites from which to retrieve news.
If you're not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.
Complete the section as follows:
Search and select sites: here you can specify the source for your news. Your news can come from the site you are on while using the web part, or one or more other individual sites. So, in this field, you need to select the sites where you have published the news you want to show (for example: news from the Marketing site)
Use the hub site? Enabling this option sets the hub site as the news source, displaying all news published there in the web part. If disabled, news will be sourced from the current site or from the specific sites you previously selected.
How many news do you want to show? This option allows you to choose how many news articles you want to display in the slider (from a minimum of 1 to a maximum of 10).
In this section, you can configure the various filters to be applied to your news. This is useful if you want only news with a specific tag to be displayed in this news section. For example, if the news are tagged by “category”, only those from a specific category will be displayed.
Configure filters
Before configuring this section, make sure that the tag system is active on the intranet.
If you don't configure the tags, the web part will indiscriminately display all published news.
In the first column, write: owstaxId + the name of the column used to assign metadata to the news. For example, owstaxIdTagAnnouncement.
In the second column, write the exact name of the tag (e.g., Show in home page). If you want to display news with different tags, enter the names of the tags, using a comma and no space between one tag and the other.
Select where to open the news: Through this option, you can choose whether to open the news in a new page or in the current page.
Enter the URL for the “view all” link: this field corresponds to the See all news button and it’ll appear on the top right of the webpart. You can choose what page the user will land on by clicking on this button. This could be highlights page with all the news of the site, for example.
Enter the display name of the “view all” link: enter the name (or label) of the 'View All' link.
Do you want to open the “View all” link on the current page?: If you select the Current page option, SharePoint will reload the page you are navigating, displaying the news. If you choose the New tab option, SharePoint will open a new browser window where the news will appear.
In this section, you can proceed to configure all the information that will be displayed on the news:
Choose how to display the title: uppercase or lowercase.
Choose whether to enable the display of the description.
Choose whether to show the date.
Choose whether to show the number of likes, comments and views. You can choose to display or hide the number of likes; to display or hide the number of comments; to display or hide the number of views.
Choose whether to display the tag name.
Choose whether to set up the automatic sliding; otherwise, users can navigate through the news by clicking on the arrows to move forward and backward.
On translated pages, by default the web part also shows news that hasn’t been translated. The Hide untranslated news option allows you to display only the news articles that have been translated into the language of the page.
If you create a translation and save it as draft, it won't be visible until it's published.
Do you want to filter news by audience? If you enable this option, news will be visible only to the targeted groups. If you disable it, all news will be accessible to everyone within the Intranet, regardless of their group or role.
Enter tag field name to show the tag: you must fill in this field only if you prefer to show news by tags. Enter “owstaxId” plus the column name of the tags you want to show for each news item.
Enter the unique id of the tags' term set: copy and paste the id of the corresponding tag term set (you can find this id in the relevant group within the Term Store).
Click here for more information about the creation of tag systems for news.
Click here to learn how to configure the id of the term set store.
Hover your mouse above or below an existing web part and you'll see a line with a circled +, like this:
Click the Edit properties button on the left of the web part to open the property pane and set options. See below for more information.
Select the Highlights web part, then click Edit properties button on the left side of the Highlights web part.
