A News Listing Page can be configured to allow website visitors to filter Story Pages using Story Topics, Story Types and Departments. Audience is not included as a filter because news publicly available on a website is available to anyone who wishes to read it. Offices and Centers and Backend Tags can be used to support quality search results but not as filters.
Story Topics generally describe a story. They should not be so specific that filtering a News Listing Page to the topic narrows the content down to just one story; topics should be higher-level bucket labels. Story Topic tag options will only appear in a website’s Story Topic filter if they’ve been applied to a published story.
It is a best practice to limit the number of actively used story topics on a website to 10. This ensures that the drop-down Story Topic filters are usable on a mobile device.
University Communications and Marketing worked with communications professionals across campus to develop a global taxonomy framework offering many options for story topics. Expand the accordion tab below to view the suggested Story Topics for units wishing to align to the university global taxonomy.
Units should choose up to 10 topic tags for use:
If a unit has questions about recommended Story Topics, please contact Katie Kelly to discuss.
To add a new Story Topic tag in Content Editor:
To edit an existing Story Topic in Content Editor:
To deactivate a Story Topic in Content Editor:
Story Types describe the general format of a story. They should not be so specific that filtering a News Listing Page to the type narrows the content down to just one story; types should be higher-level bucket labels. Story Type tag options will only appear in a website’s Story Type filter if they’ve been applied to a published story.
It is a best practice to limit the number of actively used story types on a website to 10. This ensures that the drop-down Story Type filters are usable on a mobile device.
University Communications and Marketing worked with communications professionals across campus to develop a global taxonomy framework offering many options for story types. Expand the accordion tab below to view the suggested Story Types for units wishing to align to the university global taxonomy.
If one of the following labels adequately describes the unit’s story type, this label should be used in lieu of creating another label. This will lead to consistency across sites, which will support ease of use for readers.
Units should choose up to 10 Story Type tags for use:
If a unit has questions about recommended Story Types, please contact Katie Kelly to discuss.
To add a new Story Type tag in Content Editor:
To edit an existing Story Type tag in Content Editor:
To deactivate a Story Type tag in Content Editor:
Backend Tags and Department (i.e., Unit) Tags are used to further tag and categorize events, news and people within a website. These tags are referenced by Sitecore Search when delivering search results within the page. In the future, website managers may be able to manually use these tags to control a prefiltered view of news, events or people on a page. University Communications and Marketing is documenting use case requests to see if this functionality is needed.
For example, within a college website:
Units interested in using these additional tags to create prefiltered News Listing pages should contact University Communications and Marketing.
In Page Builder:
Alternatively, in Content Editor:
In Page Builder:
Alternatively, in Content Editor:
Most units associated with an MAU have been created in the system under the Departments field. A unit tag may be nested under another unit tag.
If a content author believes that a tag is missing and would like it added to the system, contact Katie Kelly to discuss the need. Katie will provide guidance on if the tag exists (and where), if it is an appropriate candidate for a new Departments tag, or if it can be added to the global taxonomy.