News Announcements
Organizational announcements to keep users informed about the most relevant news for their work.
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.
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Add the News Announcements 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 NewsAnnouncements to quickly find and select the News Announcements web part.
Configuration
News source settings
News Announcements allows you to select a different type of source for the news and to set up different filters to be shown in the webpart itself.
If you're not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.
As a first step, select the source site where to take the news from.
For example: My Hub
Then allow the webpart to select the news from the hub site or not: this selection allows you to directly take the complete hub as source for the news.
Now it's time to choose the filters: 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.
If you want to discover more about filters and the term store management, click here.
In the first column, write: owstaxId + the name of the column used to assign metadata to the news.
In the second column, please put the Term Set Unique Identifier: this is a code that can be found in the Term Store management of your tenant and corresponds to the managed metadata column selected for the Site Pages library.
In the third column, write the exact name of the tag (e.g., Show in home page).
In the fourth column, flag Show the tag if you want the tag to be shown in the component. Unflag it if you don't want to.
Then, please select to have the news filtered by audience or not.
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, click here.
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 result: this allows you to select an ascending or descending order.
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.
General settings
News Announcements allows you to select a different title for the webpart. Moreover, it's possible to set a View more button and other layouts configurations.
If you're not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.
As a first step, enter the title you'd like to have for the webpart. If you leave it blank, the default title "Announcements" will be shown. This title will appear in the top left angle of the webpart.
Then, please select the title for the link. This is the CTA to invite users to access to the news archive, collecting all the news about the same topic.
If you're looking for how to configure the News Archive, click here.
Now enter the url of the page where the news archive is configured.
For example: https://intranetai.sharepoint.com/sites/my-hub/SitePages/SystemPages/NewsMedia/News-Archive.aspx
Lastly, you have five choices:
Select whether to open the news on the current page or on a new page.
Select whether to show the news views.
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.
Select whether to 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.
Select whether want to hide the news publication date.
Colors settings
News Announcements allows you to select a personalized color for webpart background, the news titles and the text colors.
If you're not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.
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.
These colors will be selected via the webpart only if you put it in a white section. If you decide to change the section background shading, SharePoint will adapt the colors accordingly. This happens because SharePoint can select the colors that better match with your primary colors, to improve the readability of the texts.
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.
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