The article teaser module

 

 

 

How does it work?

Have you ever considered how articles are selected for the article teaser module? Here is how…

 

 

Parameters

Articles are selected based on a set of parameters which are weighted differently. These are:

 

1) Article area

The geometrical area an article fills on its page. The bigger the area, the higher the yield.

 

2) Density

The ratio of number of characters (cf. 7) and area, so the more text per square inch, the higher the yield.

 

3) Front page proximity

How close is the article to the front page? The closer the article is to the front page, the higher the yield.

 

4) Has audio

Does the article have audio? Binary value, yields 1 for each article that has audio, and 0 for others.

 

5) Has image

Does the article have an image? Binary value, yields 1 for each article with at least 1 image, and 0 for others.

 

6) Is on a right (uneven) page

Is the article on a right (uneven) page? Binary value, yields 1 for each article that is on an uneven page (i.e. 1, 3, 5...), and 0 for others.

 

7) Number of characters

The number of characters. The longer the article's text, the higher the yield.

 

8) On front page

Is the article on the front page? Binary value, yields 1 for articles on the front page, and 0 for others.

 

9) On page (N)

Is the article on page (N)? Binary value, yields 1 for articles on page (N), and 0 for others. N is a comma separated list of page numbers.

 

10) On section front page

Is the article on a section front page? Same logic as for 8, but with each section's front page as reference.

 

11) Preassigned priority

Takes a value assigned by the customer and sent via the XML feed.

 

12) Section front page proximity

How close is the article to a section front page? Same logic as for 3, but with each section's front page as reference.

 

13) Title area

Same logic as with 1, but with the geometrical area of only the article's headline. Only meaningful when headline geometry is available.

 

14) Top edge proximity

How close is the article to the top edge? The higher the article is placed on its page, the higher the yield.

 

 

 

Default parameters and weights

The parameters are weighted differently. These are Visiolink's default set of parameters and their weights.

 

Can I influence the selection?

Yes, you can. 

At your request, we can choose to use other parameters than the default parameters and/or we can assign a different weighting to the parameters.

If you prefer a more dynamic approach, you can define which articles should be displayed for today's issue in your XML feed, cf. 11 ("Preassigned priority"). This will also require an adjustment of our XML import.