News Flash Properties

This article will show you how to configure the Properties within the News Flash module.

Instructions

1. Sign in to your site
2. Navigate to Modules and on the Content tab, select News Flash
   
   
3. Select the Properties tab
   
4. Edit the fields as needed
   
   
   • Admin Name: The Administrative name of the module. Used in the dropdown menu and while editing the module.
   • Social Media Open Graph Image: Control the image shared on Facebook from the module level. Use any full or relative image links. Images should meet the minimum size constraint of 600px by 600px. Pre-cache your images by running the URL through the URL Sharing Debugger tool to pre-fetch metadata for the website. You should also do this if you update the image for a piece of content. The debug tool also refreshes any scraped content for your websites, so it can be useful if you need to update them more often than the standard 24-hour update period.
     
     Note: For item-level images, you would use the image uploader in the item. That will be the image shown on social media. This will be used in place of any module-level image for your social media postings.
   • Show Full Text in Emails: Check to send the whole news article using email instead of just the lead-in. Lead-in text will be sent based on the 'Show Lead In' Category setting.
   • Social Media Sharing: Controls if social media sharing is allowed.
   • Allow No End Date: Allows the end date to be optional.
   • Sort By Date: Defaults /civicalerts.aspx to sort by date.
   • Links Expire: Uncheck to direct links for expired or archived items to their most recent publicly archived version.
   • Enable RSS Management Options: Enable category-level options to manage what goes in the RSS feed.
5. Select Save Changes