Turn off headline, summary, contact name etc in News asset builder

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Hi gang,

Working on an asset builder that creates news assets.

I would like to turn off the summary, contact name & headline by default on any created news items.

Is there a way to set this within the asset builder? Or do I need to create a custom paint layout which only pulls in the fields I want?

Thanks for your help!

Hi John,

In the asset builder you can do it by enabling ‘Create Form Customisation’ option from the details screen of the Asset Builder. This will create a new Content underneath the Asset Builder called ‘News Item Create Form Layout’.

From here you can use the following keywords:

Show Headline: %details-F_show_headline%
Show Summary: %details-F_show_summary%
Show Body: %details-F_show_body%
Show Contact Name: %details-F_show_contact_name%
Show Contact Phone: %details-F_show_contact_phone%

Only the Headline is a required field. The rest are optional.
You will need to create Paint Layout in order to print out the necessary content.

Yes, one way is to customise the build layout and automatically set those values to No using JS.

The other way would be to do it using a Trigger and using the Set Attribute action for news items when the asset is created:

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