SharePoint News app
Show news items from a SharePoint site's built-in News web part as an auto-rotating carousel.
Creating a SharePoint News app
- Go to Content > Add > New app and search for the Sharepoint News app.
- Click the app to start creating a new app.
- Enter an app name.
- Under Data, find Sharepoint news and click New datasource. If your workspace already has a SharePoint news data source, click Choose existing to reuse it and skip to step 7.
- Enter a Name for the data source. Under Select connection, pick an existing Microsoft SharePoint connection, or choose New connection and sign in with a Microsoft account that can read the SharePoint site. The connection is reusable for other SharePoint apps and data sources.
- Pick the Site name — only sites the connected account can read are listed — and click Save.
- Set how long each item is shown, how many items to show, and the styling.
- Click Create app.
Use SharePoint List News for custom lists
This app only reads the built-in SharePoint News web part. If your news lives in a custom list instead, use the SharePoint List News app and map the columns.
Aggregate news across an entire hub
By default the app's data source reads a single site. To roll up news from a whole hub — the hub site plus every site associated with it — pick the hub site and enable Include news from the entire hub on the data source. See Connect Microsoft SharePoint.
Full content vs. number of items
The SharePoint News data source can fetch each post's full article body (Fetch full article content) or just its short summary. This affects how many items we load:
- With full content on, we fetch each article's body individually, so to stay efficient we load the 20 most recent news items.
- With full content off (summary only), no per-article fetch is needed, so we load the 100 most recent news items.
All configuration options
| Setting | Explanation | Required |
|---|---|---|
| App name | A recognizable name shown in your content library | Yes |
| Sharepoint news | The data source that fetches the news: a Microsoft SharePoint connection plus the site to read from | Yes |
| Seconds per item | How long each news item is shown (default 20) | Yes |
| Amount of items to show | How many news items to rotate through (default 10) | Yes |
| Filter based on recency | Only include recent items | No |
| Filter based on recency (days) | Days cutoff when the recency filter is on (default 7) | Conditional |
| Base font size (px) | Base text size (default 25) | Yes |
| Put header at the bottom / Disable header / Remove Sharepoint logo | Header and logo toggles | No |
| Title font family / Text font family | Fonts for titles and article text (default Arial) | Yes |
| Background color / Article text color / Article background color / Publisher text color | Colors; a text color set inside SharePoint is kept | Yes |
| Background image | Image behind the news items | No |