Defining Internet News Content Providers

This section discusses how to define an internet news content provider.

Page Name

Definition Name

Usage

News Provider Maintenance Page

EO_PE_PROV_PG

Define an internet news content provider in your system. Maintain news content provider data, including a URL used to retrieve the news feed.

Use the News Provider Maintenance page (EO_PE_PROV_PG) to define an internet news content provider in your system.

Maintain news content provider data, including a URL used to retrieve the news feed.

Navigation:

Portal Administration > Pagelets > External News > Providers

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the News Provider Maintenance page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

 News Provider Maintenance page

Note: The term provider can refer to both the news feed source (for example, the company), or the specific query URL(s) that the company provides to access the news. For example, a news feed source may provide a single query URL value to which different URL parameters can be appended to access different news categories. Alternatively, a news feed source may supply multiple query URLs, in which case each query URL becomes its own news feed provider.

Field or Control

Description

URL

Enter the URL for the homepage of the source website. This URL is used to display links to the provider source website on the External News pagelet and personalization page.

Query URL

Enter the URL provided by the source website to retrieve data for this news feed.

Image URL

Enter a URL for a logo or image to display for news feeds for the source website.

Newsfeed Format

Select the news feed format. The Schedule External News Feed Application Engine process (EO_PE_EXNEWS ) uses this value to determine how to parse the news feed data.

RSS 0.91 XML.

Content Access Type

Select the type of content access. Selecting any value other than Free enables you to enter values in the User ID and Password fields. Available types are:

  • Company Subscription

  • Free

  • Registration required

  • User Subscription.

Default Lifespan (in days)

Enter the number of days during which most articles will be valid in your system. After the specified time, articles may be purged from your portal database. The recommended life span is 30 days.

You can override this value for individual articles on the News Article Maintenance page.