Turn your intranet into actionable information center using Banner with News web part.
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Setting up the web part
On the page where you need the web part, add a Full-width section
and then add this web part:
Adding a news post
---Adding news posts manually (default)
Use this option when you want to direct users to posts hosted outside of SharePoint (such as press releases).
In web part properties, click either Add/Remove Main Post or Add/Remove Sidebar Posts buttons to manage respective news as shown below:
You can populate news titles and links to pages either in SharePoint or elsewhere
To add the Main News Posts
Enter the data as shown below:
The main post allows you to play a video from YouTube by specifying the video URL like this:
Or if the video is on Stream, add the embed code like this:
To add the Sidebar Posts
---Pulling news posts automatically from the Site Pages library
Only the Sidebar news can be pulled automatically from the Site Pages library.
To enable this, turn on this toggle:
The web part will automatically pull the last 3 news from the Site Pages library on the current site.
Setting welcome message
If you’d like to use the currently logged-in username at the top of the banner, use any of these keywords in web part properties:
- {firstname} to show current user’s first name
- {lastname} to the last name
- {fullname} to show the full name
Here is how the {firstname} will look like for the user named “Steven”
Updating banner styles
You can change these style options:
Colors & Styles
You can also change the height of the whole banner to fit more news:
Font Settings
Labels & Language
Video not showing?
Unless your video is from YouTube, you must add the link in iframe format like this:
To get the iframe formatted link from Stream:
- Go to your video in Stream
- Click Share as shown here and select Embed code:
- Now simply click Copy embed code
