# News viewer

The news viewer portlet displays a news seed from a workflow menu. It can be used to see items sent to the inbox.

### Basic Data

**Internal name** - unique string to identify this portlet.\
**Portlet title** - title of the portlet, does not have to be unique. 

![](https://529897662-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LtPTgZOYmpJka4jqs1v%2F-M-u3__fXjJMNAYXWzZ2%2F-M-u3gPlFDLZu61dBRvh%2Fhelp_root_clients_portal_portlets_NewsViewer_basicdata.png?alt=media\&token=3f18c303-8619-47ba-98a5-be0f6352e70a)

### Display

**Display Comments** - Wether to display comments or not in the news viewer. \
**Page Size** - How many news items that are shown on each page. 

![](https://529897662-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LtPTgZOYmpJka4jqs1v%2F-M-u3__fXjJMNAYXWzZ2%2F-M-u3iQrcF5zdzLTcV7V%2Fhelp_root_clients_portal_portlets_NewsViewer_display.png?alt=media\&token=4a30004d-f0de-4276-864d-8988117ff019)

### Auto Refresh <a href="#auto-refresh" id="auto-refresh"></a>

**Auto Refresh** enables the portlet to refresh the data every SS:second.&#x20;

![](https://529897662-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LtPTgZOYmpJka4jqs1v%2F-M-u3__fXjJMNAYXWzZ2%2F-M-u3lUWz_7N9g1WQgf8%2Fhelp_root_clients_portal_portlets_NewsViewer_autorefresh.png?alt=media\&token=aee305a6-db31-4ad1-b125-dc0a232f260e)


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