Spotlight Carousel
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- This component has been designed to highlight stories on the site. It can be used as an individual element or, if you add more than one, it will become a carousel.
- Works well with news items that would want to be featured on the site, as well as making sure they are a focal point with its own section on a site
What is Spotlight Carousel Component?
When you are on the page to start creating your new piece of content, there will be a tab next to Main Content called "Components". Click on that tab to be brought to the component section of your new content.
How to add Components
In the Components tab, you will have a section to "Add Component" with a dropdown. Click the dropdown to get the full list of components available to you for your new content.
How to add Components
Below is a list of available fields that are a part of the Spotlight Carousel Cards component:
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Image Upload
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Spotlight Type
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Spotlight Title
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Spotlight Subtitle
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Spotlight Text
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URL Link (Allows internal & external links)
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Link Text
Available Item Fields
Spotlight Carousel Component
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Image Upload
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Spotlight Type
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Spotlight Title
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Spotlight Subtitle
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Spotlight Text
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URL Link and Link Text
Adding Multiple Spotlight Items
By default when creating Spotlight, only one item is created. To add additional Spotlight items, just click the "Add Spotlight Carousel Item" button.
Removing Spotlight Items
Also, if you would like to remove one of the items you created, all you have to do is click the remove button associated with the item you would like to remove. There will be a confirm removal that appears so if you didn't mean to remove an item, you can cancel it or you can confirm the removal.
How to rearrange order of components
To rearrange the order of your components, drag the component by the icon to the left of the component as show above and move it to the correct order you desire.
Spotlight Carousel
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Spotlight Carousel Component
By harvardms
Spotlight Carousel Component
In this lesson you will learn about what the Spotlight Carousel component is and how to use it within within Drupal. This covers different use cases as well as how it will visually look on your site.
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