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You will need this information when you have added an Latest News tile, and wish to populate it for the first time, or edit it.

What is the Latest news tile?

The latest news tile allows you to create a section on a cover page to automatically show all of the latest news in a feed. You can also filter the content of the tile to a specific category.

Adding content in the Latest News tile:

  1. In the 'Compose' view, you will see that your Latest News tile will already be showing some of the news articles that are published on your website (unless you have not created any yet!). To populate the Latest News tile, you will need to hover over the tile until you see the blue 'Edit' button in the top left, and then click on it.
  2. There are seven fields in the Latest News tile edit interface:
    1. 'Tile Title'
      1. This is for the title of your news tile, you may wish to change the title for the default 'What's new'
    2. 'Number of news items to show'
      1. This field is where you can define how many news items filter into the tile. The news items will be in chronological order, and there for will show the latest X number of profiles that you define. Please note, this will change the height of the containing column.
    3. 'Categories'
      1. This field will allow you to define and control which news items are shown in the News tile. If you do not move any of the categories to the box on the right, the tile will show all of the latest news items tagged with any category. If you want to show news tagged by a specific set of categories, select them and use the arrows to move them between the boxes. The categories in the box on the right are the ones that will display in the news feed.
    4. 'Show more... link'
      1. To search for an internal link, enter the name of the item of content in the search box and then click on the 'Search' button underneath. This will generate a list of matching results, click on the item of content that you wish to link to.

    5. 'Show more... external link'

      1. This will replace an internal link selected above if an external link is entered. Remember to make sure that the link begins with 'http://'.

    7. 'Show lead images'
      1. If the checkbox is selected, the lead images of the news items will show. If it is unchecked, the images will not show.

Editing content in the Latest News tile:

  1. Go to the 'Compose' view of the Cover page, navigate to the Latest News tile, and hover your cursor over it, the blue 'Edit' button will appear in the top left, click this and edit any of the fields you would like to.

Removing the Latest News tile:

  1. If you wish to remove the Latest News tile, navigate to the 'Layout' view of the cover page, and click 'x' in the top left of the tile. When deleting a tile, the tile you are selecting has a red border.

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