Latin American Regional Use Case - Regional News Widget
The Regional News Widget will display recently captured articles that have been tagged as pertaining to the specific Region (Latin America.md) or South American country. In order to accomplish this, I will use an Entity News Widget set to show news for each.
Begin by clicking on +Add a new widget to open up the Widget Editor. Similar to the Channel Widget, the Entity News Widget has several options to allow you to manage how it looks and works.
For the Latin American Regional Dashboard, I have checked the following options:
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enableFilters
This will give me the ability to filter the news directly from the Widget using the Filter Bar
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enableControls
This gives me the ability to manage the news feed using the news feed menu
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enableClusters
This gives me the ability to view the full Story Cluster associated with the Articles displayed
Continuing down the list of options, I am leaving the newArticlesIndicator unselected because I want any new Articles to automatically be added to the display rather than showing a New Article Indicator Box at the top of the widget.
The next option for the widget is display. This is a dropdown where you can select how the Articles will be displayed. The available options are Grid and List. For the purposes of this dashboard, I prefer the Grid View because my main use for this news will be to pop out the widget from the dashboard and seeing the news in a Grid View gives me far more information overall than in the [List View]../(../news/list-view.md). Selecting Grid from the display menu dropdown gives me the grid view for this widget.
The next option for the Entity News Widget is searcher. This option, when checked, gives you the ability to add other Entities dynamically from the widget. It adds a +ADD option to the widget header which you can click on to add a new Entity. In this case, I do not need that functionality so I will leave the option unchecked.
I am leaving the skipUpdates checkbox unchecked because I want the HCA Channel Widget to update with new articles automatically.
The next option is sort. Similar to the display option, you are given choices for relevance or time. Even though this is a high frequency channel, I still want to see the most recent articles first so I selected time as my initial sort. This gives me a view of the latest news for each region/country quickly and with the Grid View, I can get a quick synopsis of what is going on just by looking at the various Article Cardes. Because I checked the enableControls option, I can still switch it to relevance if that is more useful at that moment.
Next is channelid which can be used to filter the News Feed for the Entity. In this case, I will leave it blank since I am interested in all news about each region/country and not looking to filter the news using a channel.
The next two options, symbols and ids, both fulfill the same function. They are for listing the Entities you would like to see. In this case, I don't have a symbol for a Public Company available so I will add the Entity IDs for Latin America and the component countries I am interested in as follows:
145,38,201,202,747,2613,4928,3374,9471617,1248,1617
This will create a tab for Latin America, and a tab for each country of interest to me. As a reference, the codes correspond to the Region/Country as follows:
| Code | Region/Country |
|---|---|
| 145 | Argentina |
| 38 | Latin America |
| 201 | Brazil |
| 202 | Chile |
| 747 | Colombia |
| 2613 | Bolivia |
| 4928 | Nicaragua |
| 3374 | Paraguay |
| 947 | Peru |
| 1248 | Venezuela |
| 1617 | Uruguay |
Widget Definition
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