You use the News widget to display news items on your website pages. You select what content to display and then specify how news items are listed and displayed individually.
PREREQUISITES: You created at least one news item. For more information, see Create content.
NOTE: You can select more than one filter and narrow down results using combinations of filters, for example by both categories and dates.
List settings define how news items are listed by the News widget. Choose one of the following options:
Use paging Divides the news into pages. In the input field, specify how many news items per page to display.
Use limit Displays only a limited number of news items. In the input field, specify how many news items to display.
No limit and paging Sitefinity CMS displays all news that meet the requirements and filters you set in the Content tab.
Sort news By default, last published news items are listed on top. You can select a different sorting criterion:
List template Select the template you want to use to list news items on the webpage.
CSS classes Expand More options section to specify CSS file names and apply additional CSS classes to the News widget.
Single item settings define how individual news items are displayed. Choose one of the following options:
Open single item in... Select one of the following:
Auto-generated page When you click a news item, it is displayed in an automatically generated page with the same layout as the list page.
Selected existing page… From the list of existing pages, select the specific page in which news items are displayed.
NOTE: To display a news item in a page, the page must have a News widget added in advance.
Detail template Select the template you want to use to display news items on the webpage.
In Advanced settings, you specify individual properties of the widget:
DetailsPageId Gets the ID of the page you selected in the Selected exsting page.. option in the Single item settings tab page.
DetailTemplateName Gets the template you selected in the Detail template dropdown menu in the Single item settings tab page.
DisableCanonicalUrlMetaTag Sets a rel="canonical" metatag to news items. For more information, see Locations of content items: Canonical URLs.
ListTemplateName Gets the template you chose in the List template dropdown menu in the List settings tab page.
OpenInSamePage Defines whether when you click on a news item title to open the detail view in a new window The default value is False.
Model settings display all properties directly bound to the News widget model. Access these properties by clicking the Model button in Advanced settings.
ContentViewDisplayMode By default, a single content item is displayed in Detail view. This property enables you to configure whether single content items are displayed in Detail or in List view by entering Detail or List, respectively.
DetailCssClass Gets and sets an additional CSS class to the detail view of a news item.
DisplayMode Gets the value you selected in the Simple List settings tab page:
FilterExpression Filters news items based on an additional filter expression.
ItemsPerPage Defines the number of news items per page when paging is enabled. The default value is 20.
ListCssClass Gets and sets an additional CSS class to the list view.
ProviderName If you have more than one providers added, you can use a news providers different than the default one. To do this, specify the name of this provider.
NOTE: If you leave this property value empty, the default news provider is used.
SelectionMode Gets the option that you chose in the Content tab page. The possible values you can chose from are:
SerializedAdditionalFilters In case news items are filtered based on a date, tags, or categories, the IDs of the selected filter criterions are serialized and populated in that field.
SerializedSelectedItemsIds In case news items are items you specifically selected, the IDs of the selected news items are serialized and populated in that field. For example: ["3f47d0b8-2d22-6e58-888c-ff0000bfc4e0"]
SortExpression Adds additional sorting expression for the news items. The default value is PublicationDate DESC.
UrlKeyPrefix Gets or sets the URL key prefix. Used when building or evaluating URLs for paging and filtering.
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