About
News images are an interactive component you can add to a homepage in Content Hubs.
This component displays a playlist of images with accompanying text. Users can select a news item to open the full article.
Administrators add the news images playlist to a homepage. For instructions, see Add videos, playlists, and news images to homepages in Content Hubs.
Prepare your news images
- Select My Media from the user menu.
- Find the media entry you want for your news item, and select the three dots to the right of it and select Edit.
- In the Name field, enter a title for your news item.
- In the Description field, enter the article text.
- Select Save.
The 'My Media' page opens.
News items are typically created from images. Use images sized 760 x 920 pixels in JPG or PNG format. If you use a video, a still image from the video is used.
The edit page opens.
Repeat for each news item you want to create.
Create the playlist
- Select My Playlists from the user menu.
- Select + Create Playlist at the far right.
- Enter a name and description.
The 'Create Playlist' window opens.
4. Select Create.
The 'Add to playlist' page opens.
5. Select +Add to playlist and add the news images that you created.
6. Select Save.
Your administrator can now add your news images playlist to the homepage. For more information, see the Templatepages module.
User experience
The following example shows two news images on a homepage.
Users can browse the news images displayed on the page and select an image to open and read the full article.
