Featured content

Featuring content promotes community participation by attracting traffic to content. Community managers can target content features to specific groups as audiences. The service provides out of the box support for blog posts, forum threads, wiki pages, media files, ideas, and calendar events. In release 9.0, content featuring is removed from the content creation or editing windows and relocated to the front-end user interface for community managers.

In this release, featured content provides feature start and end dates but has a default expiration date of 30 days; that is, it can't be featured indefinitely. When featuring content, the form allows you to select which group to feature the content to. Frequently, this would be carried out on the current group or for the entire community, but can be scoped to any group the owner has access to.

Content that is featured is displayed on the Featured Content Slider for the group where it is configured or the site. For example if content is being featured for a certain group, the content will only be displayed on that group's Featured Content Slider widget.

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Featuring Content

Marking a post as featured content is a way to draw users' attention to it in a site, group, or both on the Featured Content Slider widget. Note that search needs to be operational for the Featured Content Slider widget to work.

A user with the Feature Content permission can feature a piece of content using the "More" drop-down list on the content page.

1. Navigate to the content you wish to feature. 
2. Click More.
3. Select Feature. The Feature dialog box appears.
   
4. Select the start date in the Start featuring field (using the calendar selection tool).
5. Select the end date in the End featuring field (using the calendar selection tool).
6. Select the Feature group or site in the Feature indrop-down list:
   1. The site group - Will appear on a Featured Content Slider widget placed on the site home page.
   2. The current group  - Will appear on a Featured Content Slider widget placed on the current group's home page.
   3. The site group and current group - Will appear on a Featured Content Slider widget placed on the site or group home page.

    

You can view, change the dates on, change the target for, upload a file, and save or delete features.

View features

To view features within an application:

1. Navigate to the application (a blog, for example).
2. Click Management panel > Manage blog. The Manage blog panel appears.
   
3. Click Features. The Features panel appears.
   
4. Click the desired feature. The configuration screen is displayed.
   

Change the dates

To change the start and end dates for featuring content:

1. Navigate to the desired feature as instructed in "View features."
2. Enter the new start date into the Start Date field, using the calendar.
3. Enter the new end date into the End Date field, using the calendar.
4. Click Save.

Change the target

To change where a feature is displayed:

1. Navigate to the desired feature as instructed in "View features."
2. Select a new entry in the Feature Targets drop-down list:
   1. Feature for site only - Only appears in the Featured Content Slider widget on the site home page.
   2. Feature in the current group only - Only appears in the Featured Content Slider widget in the group.
   3. Feature for site and group - Appears in the Featured Content Slider widget for the site and group. 

Upload a file

To upload a file:

1. Navigate to the desired feature as instructed in "View features."
2. Click Upload file.
3. Navigate to the desired file you want to upload.
4. Click Choose or Open. The file is uploaded. 
   1. Once the file is uploaded, you can Remove or Change the file.

Save the feature

To save the feature:

1. Navigate to feature as instructed in "View features."
2. Make the desired changes.
3. Click Save. The feature is saved.

Delete a feature

1. Navigate to the feature as instructed in "View features."
2. Click Delete. The feature is deleted.