Understanding Internet News Content

PeopleSoft Interaction Hub provides External News pagelets and Feed Reader pagelets that you can configure to provide access to internet news content. You set up these pagelets to display headlines from a variety of news sources in a personalized format. You can create more than one version of each type of pagelet.

External News pagelets are designed to be configured and centrally administered by a portal administrator. The administrator decides which content providers to use, which categories are visible, and which users can see those categories. Run the Schedule External News Feed Application Engine process (EO_PE_EXNEWS) periodically to harvest news headlines and URLs for all categories from the content provider. Your end users can then personalize their External News pagelets by selecting individual news categories from the overall list.

You can configure the External News pagelet to receive free and subscription-based news feeds.

A feed—also known as an RSS feed, an XML feed, syndicated content, or a web feed—is frequently updatedcontent published by a website. Particularly suitable for listing news headlines, feeds have been adopted by content providers to supply users with a sampling of the content available on their websites.

The Feed Reader pagelet provides the following features:

• News feed title, a link back to the source website, and an optional image or logo.

• Headlines and links to the associated articles on the source website.

• Optional capability to search for content on the source website.