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News Feeds: Edit

The News Feed: Edit page is used create a new or edit a News Feed page.

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

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 its title link in the list Title column.

News feeds edit tab

Link The link of this News Feed. This should normally begin with https://.
Description The description for the item. descriptions may be shown on web pages, depending on the parameter settings.

News feeds options tab

First Image Select or upload the first image of the News Feed.
First Image Float Controls placement of the image.
Image Description (Alt Text) Alternative text for screen readers. 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 Controls placement of the image.
Image Description (Alt Text) Alternative text to use for screen readers. This text is replaced with the caption text if caption text is available.
Caption The caption for the image.

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 Show or hide the News Feed images.
Feed Description Show or hide the News Feed description text.
Feed Content Show or hide the content of News Feed.
Characters count Number of characters to show if the Feed Content 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.