Auto-Populate Your Widget

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When you add assets or content widgets to your page, you have the option to select Automatically select relevant content. When you select that option, your widget will automatically be populated with system-determined related content. Manual options such as reordering, drag-and-drop, add, and remove are not available. You may filter or sort with widget options.

Important Note:

The Automatically select relevant content toggle will not appear as an option for the Single Image widget format.

Who can use this feature?

System Administrators | Owners | Publishers | Authors

Instructions

  1. Sign in to your site and navigate to your desired page

  2. Click Content The Content icon on the navigation menu.

  3. Drag and drop the content onto your page or select an existing widget  A content item is selected on the Content tab and added to the content area of the page.

  4. Check the Automatically select relevant content box  The Automatically select relevant content checkbox on the Content tab.

  5. Configure Auto-Populate settings  Settings panel for selecting content types, categories, and tags for a website widget.

    • Content Types: Add content types for the system to pull assets from

    • Categories: Add categories for the system to pull assets from

    • Tags: Type the name of a tag to add an existing tag, or type the desired name of a tag and press Enter to create a new one

    • Number of Items Shown: Choose how many items to show within the widget

    • View All: Click to include a View All link below the items

      Note:

      This displays a list of all items matching the widget's content types, categories, and tags. The link will only appear if more items are available to view.

      • Default: Displays a list of all items matching the widget's content types, categories, and tags.

      • Custom URL Link: Allows for the View All option to link to a separate internal page or external website.

      • Customize View All Text: Edit the default text that displays for users

    • Sorting: Choose to list the items in ascending or descending alphabetical order, most relevant, oldest first, or newest first

      Note:

      Alphabetical sorting is only available when one content type is selected.

  6. Configure User Filters, as needed
    User filtering options with dropdowns for selecting categories and content types.

  7. Select Save or Publish The Save and Publish icons are highlighted on the edit page screen.