Creating feed sources for activity feeds
Inform users about events that are relevant to them by creating feed sources for messages from internal or external data sources. After you create a feed source, you can include it in a user activity feed.
For example, you can configure a Pulse feed to display posts from members of different departments.- In the header of Dev Studio, click .
- In the Pulse feed record configuration section, in the
Label field, enter a short description for the feed source that
you want to create.
For example: Describe messages that users post for a team by entering TeamPosts. - In the Apply to field, select a class to which this feed source applies.
- In the Add to ruleset field, select the name of the ruleset that contains the feed source.
- Click Create and open.
- In the Feed label field, enter a description for the new
feed.By default, the system populates the feed label with the label that you provide in the Label field in step 2.
- In the Data page field, enter the data page that retrieves the messages for the feed.
- In the fields that appear based on the data page that you choose, configure additional
parameters.
For example: If you use the D_pxPostRepliesFeed data page to retrieve replies to user messages, in the UserID field, enter pxRequestor.pyUserIdentifier. The system uses this value to fetch replies to the messages that logged-in users post.
- Click Save.
- Personalize the Pulse messages in your application by customizing the message display. For more information see, Configuring display of Pulse messages.
- Add a feed source to a user activity feed. For more information, see Adding feed sources to activity feeds.
- Enable posting Pulse comments in cases. For more information, see Configuring Pulse for case types.
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