New Article Spotlight display options

At the request of MNIT Communications, we've added three new Article Spotlight templates to the array of options for displaying your article lists. Article Spotlights are essentially list previews of your articles, giving you the ability to display a set number of your latest articles on a landing page.  Now you have three new display options for use on Flex Layout pages:

• Article Spotlight List (with thumbnails) — this is an extension of the the existing spotlight list template but adds adjacent thumbnails next to each article item.
  
  
• Article Spotlight List Row (with thumbnails) — this is similar to the previous item, but the major difference being that it is designated as its own row of items.  Use this template if you want the list to take up your entire content row.  You will still need to use a Flex Row Configuration component to configure the row options!
  
  
• Article Spotlight List Row (feature image and list) — this is a completely new display option, which does the following:  displays the feature image (not the thumbnail) along with the headlines and short description for the first article item, and then adjacent to it will list out the remaining article items with no thumbnails.  Example:  if you configured your article spotlight to list out 5 of the most recent articles, the first and most recent item would display to the left with its main image and headlines, and to the right a list of the next four article items would appear. Like the previous spotlight template, this one requires its own row and its own Flex Row Configuration component to establish row color and its single-column configuration.
  

To see examples of the templates in action, visit our sample article spotlight page.

What do I need to do to get these new templates?  Nothing. Everyone with access to current Article Spotlight templates have access to these new templates.

Minor CSS fix for Feature Rotators

New CSS fixes have been rolled out for Feature Rotators, which addresses the positioning of the number controls, particularly when the viewport size dips below the 1200px threshold. 

What do I need to do to get this fix?  You may need to publish out your core.css page assembly (at the 050 level in the CSS structure group) and any sub-site CSS page assemblies that you may have.

IMPORTANT:  if you have any custom CSS that overrides the formatting and/or positioning of the rotator controls (the start/stop and number buttons), you may need to double-check that they are positioned properly.

New content type:  Sample Code

We also have another new content type that has come at the request of both MNIT Communications and the State Branding team.  This new content type is called "Sample Code" and allows you to present sample HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript along with the ability to preview it and copy the code samples.  You can see a sample of it in action at our test sample code page.

We have opted to restrict access to this content type, as the vast majority of our customers and users have no need for this particular content type. But should your agency find itself in a position where this content type would be handy for sharing code snippets with your end-users, contact Michael Tangen in MNIT's AppDev team to talk further about the ways this new content type might help your agency out.  To request access, submit a Work Order Request and have it assigned to Michael Tangen.