Enterprise Feed widget

Use the Enterprise Feed widget to display previews of blog articles shared from hub blog channels. Users can get to the complete article by selecting the article's title. For this widget to be effective, you must enable sharing on some blog channels in the hub and actively select blog articles to share.

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Set up

Follow these steps to set up this widget:

  1. Place a  Enterprise Feed widget on a page, space, or dashboard. For more information, see Placing and setting up a widget. 
  2. Select the placed widget's Edit button.
  3. Review and make changes to the settings on the Options and Appearance tabs. You can find details about the widget's settings in the Settings section below.
  4. In the widget editor, select Update to apply your changes or Cancel to discard them.  
  5. At the bottom of your page, space, or dashboard, select Publish or Save as Draft to save your changes.

Settings

Setting Description
Title Enter a title for the widget. The title appears as a heading above the widget's contents. You should use the title to provide context to the widget and better structure a page's content by clearly denoting different sections.

When entering a title, you do so only for your currently selected language. If your digital workplace supports multiple languages, you should select  Translation and enter a title for each supported language.  

This field can contain a maximum of 140 characters.
Description

Enter a description for the widget. The description appears between the title and the widget's contents. You can use this text to provide information to users about the widget.

When entering a description, you do so only for your currently selected language. If your digital workplace supports multiple languages, you should select  Translation and enter a description for each supported language.
Number of results Enter the maximum number of results to increment by and to display initially. You must enter a value between 1 and 99. If there are additional items to display, users can select the Load More link found at the bottom of the feed to load additional results. 
Options tab
Setting Description
Class Enter CSS class selectors to provide additional styling to the widget. For more information, see Applying custom CSS to widgets.
Height Select the height of the widget. Options include:
  • Auto: The leftmost slider position. The height of the widget will increase and decrease to contain what it is displaying.
  • Fixed: Select a fixed height between 50px to 600px in increments of 50px. A vertical scrollbar will appear on the widget if the content exceeds this fixed value.
Appearance tab

Note

Your digital workplace's theme overwrites many of the settings on the Appearance tab. However, the settings listed above are usable.

Using it

The feed displays shared articles ordered by their published date, with more recent articles appearing at the top. These properties of a shared article are displayed in the feed: 

  • Title (links to the article in the hub)
  • The first image
  • Summary
  • Author Name
  • Creation Date
  • Channel Name (links to Blog Channel in the Hub)

Selecting the Title or Channel Name provides navigation to the corresponding locations in the hub. Since these locations reside in the hub, the hub's access rules determine to what extent users can interact with these locations.

Image sizes

Custom themes may result in different dimensions than what is listed below.

The size and shape of the image thumbnail are dependent on the position of the widget and the screen width:

  • Narrow side column:
    • Above a 770px browser width, the image size is 220 x 140.
    • Below a 770px browser width, the image size is 675 x 140. 
  • Any other column:
    • Above a 640px browser width, the image size is 180 x 180.
    • Above a 640px browser width, the image size is 555 x 180.

Due to how images can be cropped to fit these sizes, it's best to use images with content in the center of the image.