Company News

Tagged and targeted news for the SharePoint intranet.

What is News

This web part allows you to create news aligned with your brand, facilitate communication through likes and comments, and develop news showcases dedicated to specific topics or user groups.

This web part provides the possibility to categorize news through metadata (tags) and also create audiences to target the news. This enables users to easily discover content that is useful and specific to their activities.

The News web part is integrated with our Alerts and Teams Push Notifications features, so it ensures users stay informed and engaged. Indeed, users receive instant and customizable notifications on their desktop and mobile devices through the Teams app. They simply need to click on the message to open the news on the company website.

The specificity of this component lies in its presentation format: chessboard.

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Add the News web part to a SharePoint page

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 News to quickly find and select the IAI-News web part.

Configuration

Layout settings

These settings allow you to configure the generic layout of the web part: this includes the number of items to be displayed vertically and horizontally, as well as other display options to be defined for the user experience.

If you're not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.

The first setting lets you choose how many news items you want to display horizontally in the web part. You can go to a maximum of 3 news items, and the web part will adapt to the screen size (the smaller the screen, the more the web part will adapt to it and display fewer news).
The second setting lets you select the number of news items to be displayed vertically (max. 3).
The third parameter allows you to select the number of news items to be displayed in the mobile version, which is more extended (max. 8).
You can choose to make the publication date visible or to hide it.
Finally for the user experience, you can also choose to open the news in a new page or load it on the current page.

News source settings

This section allows you to define the data source for the web part, as well as to configure filters to display a certain type of news. This enables you to highlight one or more themes in your intranet.

Select sites: select the sites from which you want to take the news to show in the web part. If you have several sites attached to your hub site, you can either select all of them to display all their news, or select just a few. If you don't select any site, news will be taken from the current site.
Open tags configurator: if you want to filter the web part, this setting allows you to do it by selecting a certain type of news linked to some tags.

In the first column, write: owstaxId + the name of the column used to assign metadata to the news.
In the second column, enter the name of the tag you'd like to display. You can add several tags; they have to be separated by a comma and there should be no spaces between them.
Once you've finished, click on Save.
Taking news from hub site?: You can choose to take news from the hub site or not. If you select Yes, the web part will automatically take all the news from the hub site.
Hide untranslated news: 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.

Audience settings

This section allows you to filter news by audience (by group): this means that users will see only the news targeted to them.

If you're not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.

If you want to filter news by audience, select Yes. By activating this feature, users will exclusively encounter news relevant to their group, while if you don't enable it, the news will remain visible to all users.

Tags settings

These settings allow you to highlight the tags you have assigned to your news.

If you're not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.

First of all, you can choose to make the tag linked to the news visible.
Then you need to copy-paste the taxonomy's unique id. To do this, go to the Term store and find the unique identifier of the taxonomy.

To access the Term store, take the following steps:

Click on the Settings icon at the top right of the page, then click on Site information.

Click on View all site settings.

Under Site Administration, click on Term store management.

You will land on the Term store, which is the area where you can create term sets and terms, i.e. tags to categorize your content. Here you need to copy the unique identifier of the taxonomy, which is a code composed of numbers, letters and hyphens.

If you want to discover more about filters and the Term store management, click here.

Open tags configurator: these settings let you define which tag you want to display and make it visible into the web part.

In the first column, write: owstaxId + the name of the column used to assign metadata to the news.
In the second column, enter the unique id of the managed property term set. To do this, go to the Term store and find the id of the term set (see photo below).