News card

Find or create News sources

To add news items to a non-News page via a News card, the news sources have to exist somewhere else first. It could be the intranet's default news page that you are adding as a source, or it could be a news, blog, forum, or calendar page that has been created on the intranet. If an external website (such as a blog or forum) produces an RSS feed, you can add it as a source and have content from it show in a News card on an intranet page or the homepage.

It doesn't matter if the source you're adding doesn't have any posts on it yet, you can still add it as a news source for a News card. Just keep in mind that you won't see any posts from that source in the News card until posts are created on the original page.

For News carousels, see Add News carousel card.

How to set up a News Card

1. In edit page, click Set up cards under Content type & template on the right. The Update cards window will open.
2. Click Modify template, click the plus sign in the column you want to add the card in, and click on News in the Cards menu on the right.
   • Note: If you don't see the Modify template option, and there is no News card already present in the template, see How to modify a page template or talk to your intranet administrator about making the News card available for you to use.
3. Find the News: List or Grid View Card that you want, and click Set up below it (or the gear icon on the right of it).
   
   
    
4. (optional) If you have multiple News cards on the same page and want to differentiate between them in edit mode, add a Card name description that only appears to editors viewing the update cards window.
5. To add content Sources: 
   1. For internal content: In the text box under Add content sources start typing the name of a News, Blog, Forum or Calendar page on your intranet. Click on the page that you want in the dropdown that appears.
   2. For external content: Copy the feed RSS URL from the external website, paste it in the text box under Add one of the following, and click Add.
6. Under the Display style heading, select the radio button for one of the four display styles. (To learn more about display styles, see News display options.)
7. Under the Order heading, select the radio button for either Items grouped by source or Merge sources to show newest item on top.
   • If you select Items grouped by source posts will show up chronologically within grouped sections.
   • If you select Merge sources to show newest item on top, all posts will show chronologically by post date.
8. Select the number of posts to display:
   1. If you selected Items grouped by source, next select the number of posts from each News or Blog page to display in the News Card, using the dropdown menu beside the page title.
   2. If you selected Merge Sources to show newest item on top, next select from the dropdown menu the total number of posts to display in the News Card.
9. If you would like to keep the news posts shorter on the page, click the checkbox under Display titles only for each Source you have added.
10. Click Update in the News pop-up window when you are finished.
11. Click Done in the Update cards window.
12. Click Save on the top right.
    
    

To learn more about the various display options, see News display options.

The size and layout of the News card will depend on the layout of the page and the size of the device it is viewed on.