The featured content feature provides an area for signed-in site visitors (community members) in the publish environment to highlight content for:
Once content is flagged as featured, it is listed within this component, which may be placed in specific landing pages or areas that easily catch the attention of community members.
The ability to feature content may be allowed or disallowed per component.
This section of the documentation describes:
Featured Content
component.To add a Featured Content
component to a page in author mode, use the component browser to locate
Communities / Featured Content
And drag it into place on a page where the featured content should appear.
For necessary information, visit Communities Components Basics.
When the required client-side libraries are included, this is how the Featured Content
component appears:
Select the placed Featured Content
component so you can access and select the Configure
icon which opens the edit dialog.
Under the Settings tab, identify the content to feature:
Display Name
The title for the list of featured content. For example, Featured Questions
or Featured Ideas
. Default is Featured Content
if left empty.
Location of the Featured Content
(Required) Browse to the page containing the content that may be featured (components of that page must be configured to Allow Featured Content). For example, /content/sites/engage/en/forum
.
Display Limit
The maximum number of featured content to display. The default is 5.
The ability to flag content as featured content requires moderator privileges.
When a moderator views posted content, they have access to the in-context moderation flags, which includes the new Feature
flag.
After it is flagged as a feature, the moderation flag becomes Unfeature
.
The page containing the Featured Content
component, now includes this post.
The Read More
links to the actual post.
More information may be found on the Featured Content page for developers.
For flagging content as featured, see Moderating User-Generated Content.