News Slider Macro - Cloud

News selectors

Content Types

contentTypes

Blog Posts

Choose whether you want to display news from pages, blog posts, or both. Valid values are:

• Pages - Display news from pages.

• Blog Posts - Display news from blogposts.

• Pages And Blog Posts - Display news from pages and blog posts.

Labels

labels

Comma-separated list of labels to search news by.

Spaces

spacesSelected

Select one or more spaces to restrict searching for news. Leave blank for all spaces.

CQL Query

cql

CQL Search query to further refine your search for news. Click here to open the full CQL Documentation

Examples:

• creator = "admin" returns news created by admin

• created = "2019/01/01" returns news created at 2019/01/01

Time Frame

timeFrame

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:

• m - Minutes

• h - Hours

• d - Days

• w - Weeks

• M - Months

• y - Years

Sort Order

sortOrder

Last Modified

Choose the order the news should be sorted by. Valid values are:

• Title/Title Desc- Sort by title of page or blogpost

• First Created/ Last Created- Sort by creation date of page or blogpost.

• First Modified/ Last Modified- Sort by last modification date of page or blogpost.

Max Results

maxResults

5

Maximum number of news to be displayed in the slider.

Show Error If No News Found

showError

Enabled

Enable to show error message when no news were found.

Slider Configuration

Width

width

100%

Width of the slider in pixels or percents.

Height

height

Height of the slider in pixels. Leave blank to automatically use the height of the tallest slide.

Auto Slide Display Time

displayTime

3 seconds

How long each news entry will be displayed in seconds, 0 turns auto slide off.

Buttons Color

buttonsColor

#0049B0

Color of prev/next navigation. Use hexadecimal notation or HTML color name.

Background Color

color

white

Background color of news entries. Use hexadecimal notation or HTML color name.

Show Navigation

navigation

Enabled

Enable to show prev/next navigation.

Show Bullets

bullets

Enabled

Enable to show navigation bullets.

News cards configuration

News Image Label

imageLabels

The file label of the image you want to display as a news image in the slider. The image needs to be attached to the corresponding page or blog post. Leave blank to use the first image the slider 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.

NB. To add an image label: Go to the page where images are attached > In the top right corner of the page click on the three dots > select Attachments > a list of images appears where you can add and edit labels!

News Text

newsText

Text Summary

Choose which part of the page or blog post content you want to display as news text:

• Text Summary - first 255 characters of text from the page or blog post content

• Full Text - entire text from page or blog post content

• Excerpt Summary - first 255 characters of text from inside excerpt macro

• Full Excerpt - entire rendered content from inside excerpt macro

• Full Content - entire rendered page or blog post content

Display Space

showSpace

Enabled

Enable to display the name of the space in news entries.

Display Author

showAuthor

Enabled

Enable to display the author's name in news entries.

Display Publication Date

showDate

Enabled

Enable to display the publication date in news entries.

Display Social Stats

showStats

Enabled

Enable to display the number of comments and likes in news entries.

Enable Links

link

Enabled

Enable to link news entries to their corresponding page or blog post.

Open in Same Tab

sameTab

Disabled

Enable to open the link in the current tab.