Asset Publisher as a search-based tool for content presentation

Asset Publisher is a very complex and highly configurable portlet that allows us to present web content folders, web contents, document folders, documents, message board messages, bookmark folders, bookmark entries, blog entries, calendar events, and wiki pages on the page. Assets that are presented by a specific Asset Publisher may be chosen manually by authorized users or automatically based on the configured rules.

In this recipe, we will show you how to configure Asset Publisher to present web content using both manual and dynamic asset selection variants.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will have to add a vocabulary containing News category and create a web content.

How to do it…

Let's assume that each week, on the main page of our intranet, we have to publish up to five of the most important news items chosen by employees responsible for news publishing. Such news can be displayed by the Asset Publisher portlet...