Scheduling a News Feed Load

This section discusses how to configure and run the Schedule External News Feed process.

This is a batch process you can configure to periodically load current internet news content headlines. This periodic load is necessary as news headlines are cached locally in the database to reduce network traffic.

Page Name

Definition Name

Usage

Schedule External News Feed Page

RUN_EO_PE_EXNW

Configure and run the Schedule External News Feed process.

Use the Schedule External News Feed page (RUN_EO_PE_EXNW) to configure and run the Schedule External News Feed process.

Navigation:

Portal Administration > Pagelets > External News > Run External News Feed

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Schedule External News Feed page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Schedule External News Feed page

Field or Control

Description

Provider

Select the news provider for which you want to load Internet news content using the query URL you defined on the News Provider Maintenance page.

Oracle recommends that you create different run control IDs to schedule news feed loads from different providers. Each provider has its own recommended news feed refresh cycle, such as hourly or twice daily.

Run/Schedule

Click to access the Process Scheduler Request page, where you can specify process parameters, including the server on which the process should be run, as well as how often you want the process to run.