News Announcements
Organizational announcements to keep users informed about the most relevant news for their work.
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Organizational announcements to keep users informed about the most relevant news for their work.
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What is News Announcements
Announcements are a more operational type of news, so they don't require elaborate graphic layouts. Visually, they are presented in an extremely simple yet clear and linear manner. This component allows you to give them the right graphic emphasis without the need for excessive effort at the level of individual news.
If your page is not already in edit mode, click Edit at the top right of the page.
Hover your mouse above or below an existing web part and you'll see a line with a circled +, like this:
Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter NewsAnnouncements to quickly find and select the News Announcements 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 “Announcements” 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.
Search and select sites: here you can select the source site where to take the news from. For example: My Hub.
Use the hub site? This option allows you to directly take the complete hub as source for the news. If disabled, news will be sourced from the current site or from the specific sites you previously selected.
You should fill out this section if you need to set which news each user will see in the webpart.
This helps to outline the following fields:
Classify news based on a specific metadata. For example, you can decide to show only news tagged as "Highlights" or "Company news".
Audience targeting. You can also filter news based on audience targeting, ensuring that different users see only the news relevant to them based on their membership to a specific group.
Show or hide untranslated news. In case of multilingual news content, the web part can display articles in the user’s preferred language, providing a personalized reading experience.
These settings help tailor the news display to specific user groups, enhancing relevance and accessibility.
Configure filters/tags: in this window, you can configure the various filters to be applied to your news. By filling in this fields, the available filters for the news will appear.
In the first column, write: owstaxId + the name of the column used to assign metadata to the news.
In the second column, copy-paste the id of the term set. To do this, go to the term store and find the id of the term set.
Show filter? Indicate whether the filter dropdown should be displayed to users. Flag this option if you want users to see and interact with the filter dropdown; leave it unflag it if you want to hide it.
Show tag? Determine if the tags assigned to the news should be displayed in the news preview. Flag this option to show the tags; unflag it if they should be hidden from view.
Do you want to filter news by audience? Please select to have the news filtered by audience or not.
Hide untranslated news: on translated pages, by default the web part also shows news that hasn't been translated. This option allows you to display only the news articles that have been translated into the language of the page. If you disable this option, untranslated news will also be visible, appearing in their original language if a translation is not available
This section allows you to sort the news by filter and/or to show these filters as tags in the news themselves. This setting allows you to view exclusively the news with determined tags assigned.
Select whether to open the news on the current page or on a new page.
Select whether to have the automatic sliding. If you put Yes, news will slide in carousel mode every 5 seconds. If you put No, the sliding will be manually made by the user, via the arrows on the bottom of the webpart.
Indicate the number of news to load: this feature will allow you to choose how many news to show up in the webpart itself.
Enter the name of the field to sort by: by default, the webpart sorts news by First Publish Date. This feature allows you to sort them by a different field. To do so, you need to enter the name of a managed property, which must be defined as sortable in the SharePoint admin area.
Select the sorting of the results: this allows you to select an ascending or descending order.
The Display Settings allow you to customize how content is presented on the screen. With various options, you can control the visibility of elements, adjust layouts, enable automatic sliding, and configure navigation settings. These features help enhance user experience and ensure the content is displayed according to your preferences.
Show news site: you can choose whether to display the name of the news site.
Invert title and content. The default option is No: in this case, you have the news content on the first line of the preview and the news title on the second line. If you select Yes, the position of these two elements will be inverted, with the title on the first line and the content underneath. See below for examples of these two layouts.
Showing the views? You can decide to display or hide the number of views.
Select whether want to hide the news publication date: if set to Yes, the date will be hidden; if set to
No, it will be visible.
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 another news announcements page with all the news of the site, for example.
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.
Enter the name of the “view all” link: enter the name (or label) of the 'View All' link.
News Announcements allows you to select a personalized color for webpart background, the news titles and the text colors.
You'll see this three choices to be selected:
If you leave it as No, the webpart will take the colors directly from the graphic theme you installed: the title of the webpart, the CTA for the news archive, the buttons for the slider and the news titles will take the primary color. The webpart background will take the NeutralLighter color code. The remaining texts (news description, date and views) will be in black.
Once you click on Yes, you'll be able to select the three different colors, both via the hex code, the RGB codes and to directly select it via the board.
Once you're done with these configurations, always remember to click Save as draft to have the preview. Once you're happy with the final result, click Republish to make the area visible for all the users in the intranet.
Click the Edit properties button on the left of the web part to open the property pane and set options such as Layout settings, Data sources, Filters settings, General settings, Display settings and Colors settings. See below for more information on each of these options.
to discover how to configure the id of the term set store.
This On/Off command will allow you to have the news filtered by audience: if you put a specific Security AD Group in Audience property of the news, this will be proposed to the users inside that specific group. If you leave this property blank, the news will be visible for everybody. If you want to discover more about SharePoint audience feature, .
Select the News Announcements web part, then click Edit web part on the left side of the web part.
