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Featured Item Queues

Introduction

Featured Item Queues are used to manage lots of content on the website. They're used for content ranging from Featured videos, Channel grids, or Sidebar widgets.

Editing a queue is quite simple, there are two methods you can use to access the queue you'd like to edit:

Edit Queue

  1. (Recommended) On the front end, you can click the pencil in the top right corner of object and click edit queue. Then you can skip to point 3 in the instructions below, or
  2. Find out the name of the queue you want to edit (you can usually find it the documentation), and follow the instructions below starting at point 1.

Instructions

  1. First go to the Featured Item Queues (Admin > Content > Featured Item Queues) page.
  2. Then select the queue you'd like to manage and click edit.
  3. Please DO NOT edit the Queue Label or the Enabled status.
  4. Editing or Adding an item requires completing the same fields, so either click the button to 'Add new featured item' or 'Edit' an existing item and complete the fields you need.
  5. After completing the relevant fields you need, you can either click 'Create featured item' or 'Update featured item' depending on if you're adding a new item or editing an existing one.
  6. Repeat points 4 and 5 until you've updated the queue.
  7. Save the featured item queue.

Info

Not all the fields for the editable items are the same, they can vary a bit .

Troubleshooting

Too many items are showing in the autocomplete dropdown

You might find typing in the autocomplete field shows too many items even when you type the exact name of the Node you're looking for. This will usually happen when looking for a channel as many nodes (videos, articles, etc.) may include the channel name in their title.

Here's a workaround to manually add the channel:

  1. Open the channel you want to link to, but isn't showing in the autocomplete.
  2. Edit the channel.
  3. You'll see a number in the url that shows in the address bar, this is the node_id, https://www.assettv.com/node/[????]/edit, keep a note of this.
  4. Now go and edit the Item in the Featured Item Queue.
  5. In the URL field, type in the name of the company as it appears when editing the channel, this needs to be exact.
  6. If you still don't see the item in the autocomplete, then can add a space after the name followed by brackets.
  7. Inside the brackets add the node_id from point 3. 
    Channel Name Here ([node_id])
  8. Save the item and the queue.
  9. Now, the most important part, reload the home page and check the link is working correctly.

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