Modify the Featured News widget
The Featured News widget displays featured articles on company news and announcements.
Before you begin
Role required: sp_admin or admin
Learn more about the news widgets: News articles
Procedure
Navigate to All > Self-Service > Employee Center.
The Employee Center home page is displayed.
Select News Center.
Press and hold the control key, right-select the Featured News widget, and then select Instance Options.
Configure the widget:
| Widget option | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Load Async | Loads widget data in the background. If you select this option, the Employee Center homepage will appear even if the News widget hasn't finished loading. | |
| Header | Text that appears at the top of the News Center page. | |
| Show thumbnail | Option that displays a thumbnail image for each news article | |
| Default thumbnail image | Select an image to display when a news article doesn't have a thumbnail image. | |
| Show empty state | Option that allows the widget to appear if there are no news articles published to the Featured News widget. | |
| Empty state message | The message to display when there are no news articles published to the Featured News widget. | |
| Layout | How you want the news articles to appear in the widget. The choices are:- Card: Displays a maximum of three articles where the thumbnail appears above the heading and subheading. Image omitted: ec-news-widget-card.png - Tile: Displays up to five news articles with one large tile and four small tiles where each tile has the news article thumbnail as the background. Featured news widget card display Image omitted: ec-news-widget-tile.png Fixed layoutFeatured news widget tile display</td></tr><tr><td> | Option to turn off pagination and display only the first page of news articles. |
| Performance Indicator | Enables viewing of nested call insights for total load time in parent and child news feed widgets, allowing users to add and review detailed nested calls for featured news and event widgets. |
- Select Save.
Parent Topic:Configure employee communications widgets