Posts

The Posts app shows news from a source: the SharePoint news of your intranet, the blog of your website, any other feed, or the latest posts of an account on X. One post stands after the other, with image, headline, and teaser.

What the app shows#

The app comes with one widget: Posts. It shows the posts of a source of your organization. The app fetches nothing itself. Szenera fetches the source once and distributes the state to all displays, see Where do your apps get their data?. The widget knows neither provider nor access. In the Data & access tab, the store therefore says under Reads existing data: “Data sources you choose for the app”. Without a network, the last state stays in place.

One post stands at a time in a steady rhythm: the image on the left, the headline in large type, below it the teaser, plus author and age and a QR code to the full post. The code appears only where the source provides a link. As a List, the widget shows several headlines with a small image one below the other and turns its pages. The source stands at every post as text, and an image carries its credit.

The widget arranges itself to fit its frame. Making it wider never removes anything.

• Post: in wide frames the image on the left over the full height, on the right source, headline, and teaser, at the bottom author, age, and the code.
• Portrait and Tile: in tall and square frames the image on top, below it the same one below the other.
• Bar: in flat bands one line with source and headline, which runs as a ticker if it is too long.
• List: several headlines with a small image. The list turns its pages, and in a flat frame it runs as a ticker.

If not everything fits the frame, the code drops out first, then the teaser, then lines of the headline, and last author, age, and progress. Source and headline stay. The settings window reports under the preview what is switched on but does not fit.

Two examples: A club shows the Post template in its foyer with the news of its website. An administration hangs the List with the notices from the SharePoint intranet in its break room.

Set up the source#

The posts live in a source. You create it once, and after that every widget chooses it from the list.

1. Under Data sources, use Create source to create a source of the form Posts: SharePoint news for the news of a site in Microsoft 365, or News feed with Own feed for any feed whose address you have.
2. Place the Posts widget in a scene in the scene editor.
3. In the Data tab of the settings window, choose your source under Source. If it is missing from the list, Create source below the field leads to the Data sources page.

For the posts of an account on X, create the kind Posts on X instead. It needs the booked app Posts from X. The steps in detail are in Create a data source and show it in a widget. Which connection SharePoint needs is described in Connect Microsoft 365, Google, or Grafana.

Settings#

Open the settings with the gear icon on the toolbar above the widget. They are on the tabs Content, Appearance, Data, and Playback. The toolbar also offers Template and Colors, plus the Background. The editor hides fields that have no effect in the chosen view, and their value is kept.

Limits#

• Read-only. The app shows posts, it does not create or change any. It writes nothing in SharePoint or on your website either.
• No sign-in on the display. The app knows neither access nor key. The source and its connection stay with us.
• At most 12 posts one after the other, and none older than 90 days.
• Fetched at the interval of the source. A new post appears after the next fetch. The presets are every 15 min for SharePoint news, every 5 min for a news feed, and hourly for posts on X. You set the interval at the source.
• Images load at the display. The display loads only the images of the posts through their address. If an image is missing or does not load, its place shows a calm gradient.
• Posts from X stand like news. The text of the post is the headline, and there is no teaser. The code leads to the post on X.
• The code needs a link. It appears only where the source provides a link to the post, and only with Single.
• The source stays credited. It stands at every post as text and cannot be hidden.
• Without posts, the area stays calm. At most “No posts right now” appears on the display. Why nothing runs is told only by the editor.

If something goes wrong#

Related#

• Create a data source and show it in a widget — create and choose a source, and keep it running.
• Configure widgets — the tabs of the settings window with template, colors, and preview.
• Discover apps — all apps of the News & info category.