Featured Channels - how to show them selectively?
Either I've misunderstood something, or there are controls missing to show featured channels within the Featured Channels block. Please help me understand:
I've got a page with both Featured Channels, and Featured Channels (showcase view) blocks and neither is showing any content. I have created a few channels, and am trying to designate one of them as Featured. But I don't see the star icon in any view. None of the following attempts give me the option to Feature a channel, or even a single post within that channel. I've looked in:
- Studio > Channels > Manage > ⚙ [gear/settings]
- UX > Channels > ⁝ [context menu] for individual posts.
- Studio > Page > Featured Channel blocks> Edit Block
Best/most obvious method would be option 3 where I could enter the #channel_name I want that Block to show. Next best option would be option 1 where I could set the entire channel to be Featured.
Option 2 shows a choice to Promote a post. This is the only place I've seen this term. It would seem to be similar to Feature. Why the distinction? Anyway, if this context menu had the Feature option, it would change the logic from Channel-based to Post-Based. Perhaps useful if you want to feature a post regardless of the channel it appears in. But I'd still want to have the ability to Feature an entire channel.
Thoughts?
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Hello @Gabe !
By default, the Channels app has the Featured button on the view page like you may see in teh attached screenshots.
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Okay, but I don't see how a user would navigate to that page. The obvious methods deliver me to the [view-channel-profile] page. But that appears to be a different view from the page you show. What is the URL for yours? This is the navigation I'm experiencing:
/channels-home/ > [user clicks a channel] > /view-channel-profile/[channelName]
And here's what it looks like - notice there are none of the actions you have shown.