Use the News Teaser macro to show off news entries with thumbnails and excerpts in a Pinterest-like card layout or as a simple list.
Parameters
Parameter | Default | Description | |
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News Selectors | Content Types
| blogposts | Choose whether you want to display news from pages or blog posts or both. Valid values are:
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Labels
| None | Comma-separated list of labels to search news by. Prefix labels with a + sign to indicate must-have labels or use a - sign to exclude news having a certain label. Examples:
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Spaces
| None - news from all spaces will be displayed | Comma-separated list of space keys to restrict searching of news. Use @self for current space. Leave blank for all spaces. | |
CQL Query
| None | Search query to further refine your news search. See Confluence Search Syntax for more information. Examples:
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Time Frame
| None - no time limit for news | Specify how far back in time Confluence should look for news to be displayed. Example: Use 12h to display all news created or updated in the last 12 hours. Leave blank for no time limit. Available units are:
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Sort Order
| creationDate | Choose the order the news should be sorted. Valid values are:
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Filter News By Date Range
| false | This option allows you to sort the news by a specific date range. Based on the sort order you have chosen, the sort is applied. | |
Max Results
| 5 | The maximum number of news to be displayed. | |
Show Error If No News
| true | Enable to show an error message when no news was found. | |
Teaser Configuration | Layout
| cards | Choose whether you want to display news in a Pinterest-like card layout or as a list. Valid values are:
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Content Types
| responsive | Choose the number of columns to be displayed when using the card layout. Use responsive to let the macro dynamically choose the number of columns for the best fit. Valid values are:
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Promoted Label
| None | Label which indicates whether news should be displayed as promoted news with a ribbon containing the label name. Leave blank for no promoted news. | |
News Cards Configuration |
News Image Label
| None - use the first image (in alphabetical order) the macro can find attached to the page or blog post | The file name or label of the image you want to display as a news image. The image needs to be attached to the corresponding page or blog post. Leave blank to use the first image (in alphabetical order) the macro can find attached to the page or blog post. If no image attachment with the given file name or label exists or the page or blog post has no image attachments at all, no news image will be displayed. Example: thumbnail.png |
Background Color
| white | The background color of news entries. Use hexadecimal notation or HTML color name. | |
News Text
| summary | Choose which part of the page or blog post content you want to display as news text:
Deprecated
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Display Space
| true | Enable to display the name of the space in news entries. | |
Display Author
| true | Enable to display the author's name in news entries. | |
Display Publication Date
| true | Enable to display the publication date in news entries. | |
Display Creator
| false | Enable this option to display the name of the creator in the news entries. | |
Display Created Date
| false | Enable this option to display the creation date of the news or blog posts in the news entries. | |
Display Social Stats
| true | Enable to display the number of comments and likes in news entries. | |
Enable Links
| true | Enable to link news entries to their corresponding page or blog post. | |
Open Links in the new Window
| false | Enable to open links in a new browser window, if links are enabled. | |
Deprecated | Promoted News First
| false | Enable to display promoted news before regular news. |
Show Engagement Buttons
| true | Enable to display of engagement buttons (like, favorite, comment and share) when hovering over news entries. | |
Reverse Order
| false | Enable for reverse sort order. | |
Load More
| true | Enable to show button at the bottom to load more news entries. | |
Promoted Color
| None - topbar color of the current space will be used | Color of the ribbon of promoted news. Use hexadecimal notation or HTML color name. Leave blank to automatically use the topbar color of the current space. |
Creating News Teaser macro
To create a News Teaser macro, perform the following steps:
Go to the page where you want to display the slides and click edit.
Click the + icon. Search for the News Teaser macro.
(or) you can type { News, the list with latex macro suggestions is displayed.Select News Teaser macro. The News Teaser macro is displayed.
Type the name of the space from where you pull the news and to help you the results are auto-populated. You can specify multiple space names.
You can customize parameters according to your requirements. For more information, see Parameters.
Click Apply.
Publish the page.