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title: "News Ticker Macro - Server/DC"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/NEWS/309658170/News%20Ticker%20Macro%20-%20Server%2FDC"
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> Macro (aura-html)
Use the News Ticker macro to grab your latest breaking news from blogposts and pages and display them in a simple ticker.
### Parameters
| **Parameter** | **Default** | **Description** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| *News Selectors* | *Content Types*
`contentTypes` | blogposts | Choose whether you want to display news from pages or blog posts or both. Valid values are:
- *Pages* - Display news from pages.
- *Blogposts* - Display news from blogposts.
- *Pages and Blogposts* - Display news from pages and blog posts. |
| *Labels*
`labels` | None | Comma-separated list of labels to search news by. Prefix labels with a **+** sign to indicate must-have labels or use a **-** sign to exclude news having a certain label. Examples:
- *confluence,jira* - Returns all news labelled with confluence OR jira.
- *+confluence,+jira,-bitbucket* - Returns all news having labels confluence AND jira, excluding news labelled with bitbucket. |
| *Spaces*
`spaces` | None - news from all spaces will be displayed | Comma-separated list of space keys to restrict searching of news. Use **@self** for current space. Leave blank for all spaces. |
| *Search Query*
`searchQuery` | None | Search query to further refine your news search. See [Confluence Search ](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html)Syntax for more information. Examples:
- confluence OR jira returns all news containing either 'confluence' or 'jira'
- "atlassian jira" returns all news containing the phrase 'Atlassian Jira |
| *Time Frame*
`time` | None - no time limit for news | Specify how far back in time Confluence should look for news to be displayed. Example: Use **12h** to display all news created or updated in the last 12 hours. Leave blank for no time limit. Available units are:
- *m* - Minutes
- *h* - Hours
- *d* - Days
- *w* - Weeks |
| *Sort Order*
`sort` | creationDate | Choose the order the news should be sorted. Valid values are:
- *Title* - Sort by the title of the page or blog post.
- *Title desc: *Sort by the title description of the page or blog post.
- *First Created: *Sort by the first creation date of the page or blog post.
- *Last Created: *Sort by the last creation date of the page or blog post.
- *First Modified: *Sort by the first modification date of the page or blog post.
- *Last Modified*: Sort by the last modification date of the page or blog post.
- *modifiedDate* - Sort by the last modification date of the page or blog post. |
| *Filter News By Date Range*
`Datefilter` | false | This option allows you to sort the news by a specific date range.
Enable this option, a calendar is displayed, then select the start and end date.
> ℹ️ Based on the sort order you have chosen, the sort is applied. |
| *Max Results*
`maxResults` | 5 | The maximum number of news to be displayed. |
| *Show Error If No News*
`showErrorIfNone` | true | Enable to show an error message when no news was found. |
| *News Cards Configuration* | *News Text*
`excerptType` | title | Choose which part of the page or blog post you want to display as news text:
- *Title - *Title of page or blog post.
- *Excerpt* - Content from inside excerpt macro. |
| *Prefix Text*
`prefix` | None | Optionally choose whether you want to display the space, author, creation date or last modification date before the news text. Valid values are:
- *space* - Space of page or blog post.
- *author* - Author of page or blog post.
- *creationDate* - Creation date of page or blog post.
- *modifiedDate* - Last modification date of page or blog post. |
| *Enable Links*
`enableLinks` | true | Enable to link news entries to their corresponding page or blog post. |
| *Open Links in the new Window*
`openLinksInNewWindow` | false | Enable to open links in a new browser window, if links are enabled. |
| *Ticker Configuration* | *Title*
`title` | false | The title of the ticker to display. |
| *Width*
`width` | None - responsive width will be used | Width of the ticker in pixels. Leave blank for responsive width. |
| *Color*
`color` | None - topbar color of the current space will be used | Color of the ticker. Use hexadecimal notation or [HTML color name](https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_names.asp). Leave blank to automatically use the topbar color of the current space. |
| *Display Time*
`delay` | 4sec | Slide through the slider to choose the duration (sec) you want to display each of the news entries. The duration ranges from 1 sec to 120 sec. |
| Deprecated | *Reverse Order*
`reverseSort` | false | Enable for reverse sort order. |
### Creating News Ticker macro
To create a *News Ticker *macro, perform the following steps:
1. Go to the page where you want to display the slides and click edit.
2. Click the **+** icon and search for the *News Ticker* macro.
(or) you can type* ****{ News***, the list with news macro suggestions is displayed.
3. Select *News Ticker* macro. The *News Ticker* macro is displayed.
4. Type the name of the space from where you pull the news and to help you the results are auto-populated. You can specify multiple space names.
5. Customize parameters according to your requirements. For more information, see [Parameters](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NEWS/pages/309658170#Parameters).
6. Click **Apply**.
7. Publish the page.