Teaser Title | Teaser Text | Pictures and Media | Items | CTAs | |
C009 Component | Yes | No | No | Optional | No |
Curated Items | Yes | Yes | Yes | -- | -- |
Queried Content | Yes | Yes | Yes | -- | -- |
The Latest News is a content grid that features three tile teasers that link to press releases, articles and events. Headlines should be succinct and correspond to the news release or selected article. Note: The categories in green are generated via category tagging. Add the three most recent items expected from query results or curated items.
On the Content Tab include a Teaser Title that will appear at the top-left of the component. In addition, the Related Articles Page should be set to the News & Events page or a Search Teaser with the target of the News & Events page and any filters you wish to apply by default. Set the Layout Variant to C009.
On the Conditions tab of your Query List Document you will select your content type(s) and conditions. For Content Type you will usually select Page in most use cases. You may select other content types or even select All, but understand what might be pulled into your query results.
Unless you choose the appropriate Tags in the Search Query section, you may get unintended items in your results. Start by selecting "Tag (Subject)" for your "Content Must Apply To" option. From there you can select the tags you wish to use for the query. For example, in most use cases we are looking for news articles. To appropriately select just these items you should include tags such as "Topic Area" and/or "Subjects" from the News & Events Tags. You can also include other relevant tags such as Business Platform, Brand, Industry, etc.
In the bottom section "Sorting of the Search Results" you should first select "External Display Date" for the "By what should the results be sorted?" question. This is why adding the External Display Date to all of your content is important, especially news articles. If you want the most recent dated items returned you need to select "Descending" for the "By which order should the search results be sorted?" question. Finally, as noted, this component is intended to be 3 across, so "How many items should be displayed in the list" should be set to 3.
To manually select what appears you will go to the Content Tab. Even though you are not using the query, make sure the number of "items to display" at the bottom of the Conditions tab needs to be set to 3. Go to the content tab and under Items add whatever content you wish to have displayed. It will appear in the order it is added to the Items list.
The component design allows a tag to be used to display the white text in the green bar for each item. It is currently set to use: Subject -> News and Events -> Subjects
This is accomplished with a setting entry in the SearchConfiguration Settings file (which can be located on the Homepage System tab) with the following details:
property: latestnews.search.topicarea.tag
value: Subjects (Tag)
link to type: Tag
This component uses several text fields that need translated content. These can be found in one of the Bundle files which are most easily accessed on the Localization tab of the Homepage.
