Understanding Apple News Article widgets
Once you publish an Apple News Article, a few new widgets appear:
- Apple News Article Actions鈥擯rovides a list of actions pertaining to the Apple News Article, including read and update operations.
- Apple News Article Synchronizations鈥擠isplays whether the Apple News Article in Brightspot is in sync with Apple News.
- Apple News Distributions鈥擲hows the status of jobs sent to Apple News.
- Apple News Share URL鈥擜llows quick access to the Apple News Article in Apple News.
Apple News Article Actions
The Apple News Article Actions widget has a few operations, including:
- Generate Article Document鈥擯rovides whole, compiled document for use for News preview. This allows you to download JSON for the Apple News Article. includes JSON styles and a button you can use to download the JSON.
- Read from Apple News鈥擯rovides data that Apple News has received after the Apple News article is submitted.
Update in Apple News鈥擬anually pushes an update to Apple News. To do this, update the article in Brightspot and republish, then click Update in Apple News.
TipIf the original article is updated, you must navigate to the Apple News article that is receiving the update, re-publish it, and then click Update in Apple News.- Delete from Apple News鈥擱emoves the article from Apple News.
Apple News Synchronizations
The Apple News Synchronizations widget displays whether the Apple News Article in Brightspot is in sync with the source on Apple News.
The widget can contain one of three statuses:
- In Sync鈥擬arked by a green circle, the Apple News Article is in sync with Apple News.
- Out of Sync鈥擬arked by a red circle, the Apple News Article is out of sync with Apple News. An update request should be made.
- Unknown鈥擬arked by a blue circle, the sync status of the Apple News Article is unknown. Either the remote state of the Apple News Article was not tracked, or the Apple News Article was taken down. A create or update request should be made to mark the article as in sync.
Apple News Distributions
The Apple News Distributions widget shows the status of the jobs sent to Apple News.
Apple News Share URL
The Apple News Share URL widget provides a link on which you can click to view the article in Apple News.
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