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Controlling Story Placement and Order in News Views

We use two promotion options — Sticky at Top and Promoted to Front Page — to manage story placement across views and the order in which they appear. 

Promoted to Front Page

  • Use this for the main news feed. It will not affect topic-specific views (e.g., Initiatives News, Student Experience Stories).
  • Only one story should be promoted at a time. If multiple stories are promoted, the most recently published story will appear in the featured area.
  • In this interface, promoted stories appear at the top of the list, even if you filter by Tag or UANews Tag.

Sticky at Top

  • Use for specialized or topic-specific views such as TRIF News, Initiatives News, and Student Experience Stories.
  • Multiple stories can be set as sticky.
  • Sticky at Top works as a sort, not a filter This means:
    • Other non-Sticky stories are not hidden
    • Sticky stories are displayed first
    • Remaining stories are sorted by publication date.
  • In this interface, Sticky stories will appear at or near the top of the list, below any stories that are promoted to the front page. 

The difference between the two tags

UANews Tags

This vocabulary is automatically populated by the tags we selected for our News feed. You can see which tags we selected here, and the full list of UANews tags [coming soon].

Changes to the way this vocabulary is applied must happen on the UANews side, as any changes we make will be overridden daily when the feed importer runs.

Tags

This is our own vocabulary that is not exclusive to news content, but is applied to other types of content on the website such as FAQ.

Tags can be added to this vocabulary “on the fly,” from the content editing UI. If you type a term that is not included in the vocabulary, you'll be offered the option of adding it right away. If you think a term will apply to numerous stories, and you imagine end-users might want to view stories related by this term, feel free to add it as a tag.

This vocabulary is occasionally referred to "ORP Tag" in documentation in order to distinguish it from UANews Tags.