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News Feeds: Edit

Description

This is where you add a new News Feed or edit an existing one. Note that you need to create at least one News Feed Category before you can create your first News Feed.

Common Elements

Some aspects of this page are covered in separate Help articles:

How to Access

  • Select Components → News Feeds → Feeds from the Administrator menu. Then ...
    • To add a new News Feed, select the New icon in the toolbar.
    • To edit an existing News Feed, select the News Feed's title link in the list Title column.

Screenshot

News feeds edit tab

Form Fields

Edit News Feed Tab

Left Panel

  • Link The link of this News Feed. This should normally begin with https://.
  • Description The description for the item. Category, Subcategory and Web Link descriptions may be shown on web pages, depending on the parameter settings. These descriptions are entered using the same editor that is used for Articles.

Options Tab

News feeds options tab

Images Panel

  • First Image Select or upload the first image of the News Feed.
  • First Image Float (Right/Left/None) Controls placement of the image.
  • Alt text Alternative text to use for visitors who don't have access to images. This text is replaced with the caption text if caption text is available.
  • Caption The caption for the image.
  • Second Image Select or upload the second image of the News Feed.
  • Second Image Float (Right/Left/None) Controls placement of the image.
  • Alt text Alternative text to use for visitors who don't have access to images. This text is replaced with the caption text if caption text is available.
  • Caption The caption for the image.

Display Panel

  • Number of Articles The number of articles from the news feed to display on the page.
  • Cache Time The number of minutes before the system checks for new content from the news feed source.
  • Language Direction Whether the language for this feed reads from left to right or right to left.
  • Feed Image (Use Global/Hide/Show) Show or hide the image of News Feeds.
  • Feed Description (Use Global/Hide/Show) Hide or Show the description text of the News Feed.
  • Feed Content (Use Global/Hide/Show) Show or hide the content of News Feeds.
  • Characters count Number of characters to show if Feed Content from News Feeds is set to show.
  • Layout Use a layout from the supplied component view or overrides in the templates.
  • Feed Display Order The order used to display the feed.