Highlights
The dynamic slideshow for your most important news within the SharePoint intranet.
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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Add the Highlights 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 Highlights to quickly find and select the web part.
Configuration
News source settings
If you're not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.
As a first step, you can choose how many news articles you want to display in the slider (from a minimum of 1 to a maximum of 10).
With the next option, you can choose where to open the news:
• If you select the 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.
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.
If the news you want to display are all published on the hub site, you can simply check the Taking news from hubsite option.
Tag settings
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.
Before configuring this section, make sure that the tag system is active on the intranet.
In the first column, write: owstaxId + the name of the column used to assign metadata to the news.
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.
If you don't configure the tags, the web part will indiscriminately display all published news.
Information settings
Then, 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 display the tag name.
Choose whether to set up the automatic slideshow; otherwise, users can navigate through the news by clicking on the arrows to move forward and backward.
If you choose to display the tag name next to the news, remember to fill in the boxes below as well:
In the first box, write owstaxId followed by the name of the column used to assign metadata to the news.
In the second box, write the unique ID of the term set.
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.
Title settings
In this section, you have the possibility to configure the title that will appear at the top right of the highlights web part.
Enter the custum title you prefer. By default, SharePoint will show “Highlights”.
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