The Related Stories section is used to show a list of stories within a Project. The section can be inserted into your story to display additional stories of a similar topic that may be of interest to your readers, or all the stories nested under the parent story such as issues of a digital edition.
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The story below shows the Related Stories section inserted at the bottom of the story to display a list of stories related to the parent story.
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The section includes an optional heading and the list of stories can display:

All options will display a list of stories by title, with the image and description from the Title section of the story, and a link to the story.
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This option displays all the immediate child or sibling stories of the current parent story or a specific story. Insert the section into a story within a project, then from the Related stories options menu, choose Children or Siblings of the current story or a specific story and click save to view the stories in the list.
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This option allows you to display stories containing particular tags. Insert the section into a story within a project, then from the Related stories options menu, choose show Stories related by tags. Search for tags to show a list of stories containing those tags. When you’ve finished entering tags, click save to view the stories in the list.
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This option give you complete freedom to choose any story from the Project or external links to display. Insert the section into a story within a project, then from the Related stories options menu, choose show Manual selection of stories, then click the button to + choose stories. A panel will display where you can click on a single story to insert it into the list or click the checkbox in the top right to select multiple stories to insert, or choose to add an external link outside of your project.
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When adding external links, you can add a thumbnail image, a title, a description, and a URL.
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Once you have inserted a story, a button to + Add stories will appear above and below the list so you choose more stories or external links to insert. Each item can be removed from the section by clicking on x icon in the top right.
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The background of the section can be set to a colour, an image, or a video. To set a background colour, click ‘Section options’ and choose light, dark, or a custom colour.
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To set an image or a video background, click ‘Edit background media’ and choose image or video and then add media. Video will be auto-played, looped and muted.
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Images can be cropped to different shapes. By default, the images are cropped to landscape. They can also be cropped to circle, square, portrait, or un-cropped. You can also set the selected crop as the default by toggling ‘Set as default’ which will apply the same crop to the rest of the images in the section.
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In the section options, you can choose from the following layout options:
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All options show the story title, description, thumbnail image and link to the story. The Image & title option also includes size options of small, medium, and large. The default display option is List.

Stories in the list are sorted by:
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By default, they are sorted by most recently published.
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By default, the number of stories to display is set to ‘All’, or you can set a specific number to limit the number of stories displayed in the list.
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