Understanding Blogs

Blogs in Oracle's PeopleSoft Interaction Hub enable individual authors or teams to maintain blogs (or “web logs”). In PeopleSoft Interaction Hub, blogs provide these features:

  • Rich text editing and image support.

  • Multi-threaded comments that can be moderated or unmoderated.

  • Tagging.

  • Feeds.

  • Ability to search blog content.

  • Multi-language support.

  • Public or PeopleSoft role-based security.

A blog is a site, maintained by an individual or group, with regular posts of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material. Individuals post articles on their blogs to let a community of interested parties read about and comment on items and ideas expressed.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject, and this is most common in an enterprise blog. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of the blog.

Corporate or enterprise blogs can be used either internally, to enhance communication and culture in a corporation, or externally, for marketing or public relations. External blogs can also be used to disseminate information to customers and user groups, suppliers, partners, and so on.

In PeopleSoft Interaction Hub, blogs can be created as “standalone” in portals and sites, or as an integrated module of a collaborative workspace. Standalone blogs can be accessed through the My Blogs page and the Blogs homepage pagelet.

When portal system administrators create a standalone blog, they can then assign an administrator to manage each blog. The blog administrator determines the membership and privileges for the blog, and has the option to manage the blog as moderated or unmoderated. Blog moderation is applied to all comments or replies. If moderation is set, the administrator has to approve each comment or reply before it can be viewed by the blog participants. The approval or rejection of a post causes an email notification to be sent to the participant who posted to the blog.

Note: Comments and replies posted by an author to his or her own post are not moderated.

This section also provides an overview of:

  • Blog privileges.

  • Blogs module in collaborative workspaces.

The following table summarizes blog privileges granted by portal role or privilege set ID. Privilege set IDs are defined on the Define Privilege Sets page. Privileges are assigned to blog participants on the Blog Security page.

Role ID or Privilege Set ID

Description

Privileges

PAPP_SYSTEM_ADMIN

Interaction Hub System Admin role.

A portal administrator can:

  • Create new blogs.

  • Assign administrators to manage blogs.

  • Manage blogs.

  • Delete blogs.

  • Approve or reject blog comments or replies (when moderation of the blog is enabled).

In addition, as a participant of blog a portal administrator can:

  • View blog posts and replies.

  • Add posts to blogs.

  • Add replies to blogs.

EPPBL_ADMINISTRATOR

Administrator privilege set.

  • Manage the blog.

  • Approve or reject blog comments or replies (when moderation of the blog is enabled).

  • Add posts.

  • Edit any post or reply.

  • Delete any post or reply.

  • Edit own posts or replies.

  • Delete own posts or replies.

  • View blog posts and replies.

EPPBL_AUTHOR

Author privilege set.

  • Add posts.

  • Edit own posts or replies.

  • Delete own posts or replies (if no replies have been posted to that post or reply).

  • View blog posts and replies.

EPPBL_READER

Reader privilege set.

View blog posts and replies.

The Blogs module provides a platform that workspace members can use to discuss posts of interest. The blog can be configured as moderated or unmoderated, and members can post blog posts and replies. The pages used to participate in blogs in the Blogs module are the same pages used for standalone blogs.

See Using the Blogs Module.