Overview
You may wish to show multiple highlights in the same Web Part, for instance, all the birthdays/anniversaries in a week, or all the new hires in a month.
Solution
You can use the News Rollup Web Part to accomplish this. The solution is presented in 3 stages:
I. Add the content pages to the News subsite
You will first have to add pages that contain the content that you wish to highlight, such as employee anniversaries or new hires to the News subsite.
- Navigate to the News subsite, then click on the Settings Cog > Site contents in the top right:
- Navigate to the Pages Library:
- Click on the Settings Cog > Add a Page:
- Choose a name for your page, the example here shows Anniversary Y:
- Create the page as per the requirements for your content. If you need any guidance on how to populate the various fields, please refer to the article How to create a Generic Page.
- There are two fields that will need to be specifically configured, the Rollup Image and the Tags for this page.
- Rollup Image:
- When you have selected a suitable image as the Rollup Image, click on the selected image to highlight it blue. This will make the Image tab appear on the Ribbon above:
- On this Ribbon, click on Pick Rendition and select the Bonzai News Rollup Single Tile option:
- This will ensure that the image will fit the Web part and multiple content pages can be displayed in the Web Part, e.g:
- When you have selected a suitable image as the Rollup Image, click on the selected image to highlight it blue. This will make the Image tab appear on the Ribbon above:
- Tags:
- Click on the small icon next to the Tags field to bring up the list of tags:
- In order to uniquely identify these pages as anniversaries, birthdays etc, you will need to create a new tag (unless one was already created for such a purpose previously):
- Type the name of the tag to be created, e.g. Employee Anniversaries and click OK:
- Click on the small icon next to the Tags field to bring up the list of tags:
- Check in the page you created. Repeat these steps for all the content that you need to add, e.g multiple anniversaries, birthdays etc.
II. Create the Custom View
- Navigate back to the Pages Library as explained previously.
- Click on the 3 dots and select Create View:
- Select Standard View:
- Choose an appropriate name for the View e.g. Employee Anniversaries:
- Scroll down to the Filter section and use the Tag filter as shown below, using the Tag that you created previously:
- Click on OK at the bottom. You will then see the Page you just created under this view:
II. Create the Web Part
- Navigate to the Site/Page/Subsite where you wish to display this Web Part. Click on the Settings Cog and Edit Page:
- Click on Add a Web Part wherever you wish to add this Web Part:
- Select the News Rollup Web Part under Bonzai Web Parts and click on Add:
- Click on the chevron next to the Web Part just created, and click on Edit Web Part:
- Scroll to the top of the page, and modify the Web Part settings in the panel to the right. While you can configure the rest of the settings as you wish, the following fields need to have the following entries:
- Template: News Tiles
- Site URL: Point to your News subsite where you added the pages
- View: The View created in the previous steps, e.g. Employee Anniversaries
- Title: Name of the Web Part, e.g. Anniversaries. Click on Apply
Testing
The Web Part will be configured to show multiple content pages. See example below where the steps above were executed for two pages.