Creating and Using Feeds

This chapter discusses how to:

• Define and publish feeds.

• Publish feeds list feeds.

• Access feeds.

• View feeds

Defining and Publishing Feeds

This section presents the business process flow for feeds and discusses how to:

• Publish feeds.

• Define feed properties.

• Define advanced options.

• Publish feeds to additional sites.

Pages Used to Publish Feeds

Feed Publishing Business Process Flow

This diagram illustrates the business process flow for developing, administering, and viewing feeds.

Publishing Feeds

To publish the feed, you access the Publish as Feed pages.

Each feed data type has its own set of properties necessary to define feed details. This table lists the delivered feed data types and navigation path to the publish pages.

Defining Feed Properties

When you click the Publish as Feed link, you then must define feed properties such as the feed title, security, and other options.

Access the Publish Feed Definition page (click the Publish as Feed link).

Feed Properties

Additional Feed Properties

Not all readers display all properties. This table describes the additional feed properties that some feed readers process and display.

Note. Values entered in these fields replace the default feed property values defined at the feed data type level.

See Feed Document Properties.

See Defining the Feed Data Type.

Feed Security Options

This table describes the feed security options:

Note. Query feeds apply security by using the Advanced Options page.

Worklist feeds support real-time security only and Feed Security options do not appear for Worklist feeds.

See Understanding Worklist Feeds.

See Defining Advanced Feed Options for Query Feeds.

Selected Security

Defining Advanced Options

Advanced options differ by data type.

Access the Generic IB Message Feed Advanced Feed Options page.

Max Number of Entries

Enter the maximum number of entries that the feed should return to the user. Enter 0 for unlimited entries. The framework restricts the output to 300 entries. Note. This value (300 entries) can be configured in the PTFP_MAX_ROW_LIMIT field in the PS_PTFP_OPTIONS table. If the Max Number of Entries specified is 0 or greater than the PTFP_MAX_ROW_LIMIT, then the output is limited to the value in the PTFP_MAX_ROW_LIMIT field. If the PTFP_MAX_ROW_LIMIT is 0 or does not exist, then the output is limited by Max Number of Entries.

See Also

Defining Advanced Feed Options for Query Feeds

Defining Worklist Advanced Feed Options

Publishing Feeds to Additional Sites

You can publish the feed to any site listed in the additional sites list.

Access the Publish Feed Definition to Sites page:

Target Sites

Publishing a List of Feeds Feed

List of Feeds feed is a feed that contains a list of all available feeds of a specific feed data type. When you access the list of feeds feed, you see only the feed that you are authorized to view. You can publish list of feeds feed by using the FEED data type.

To publish a list of feeds feeds:

1. Select PeopleTools, Feeds, Define Feed Data Types.

2. Select the data type for which to produce the list of feeds.

   • FEED

     Select this option to produce a list of all lists of feeds to which the user has access.

   • GENERICFEED

     Select this option to produce a list of all generic IB message feeds to which the user has access.

   • PSQUERY

     Select this option to produce a list of all query feeds to which the user has access.

   • WORKLIST

     Select this option to produce a list of all worklist feeds to which the user has access.

3. Click the Publish as Feed link.

4. Click the feed definition to view the feed.

   See Defining and Publishing Feeds.

Accessing Feeds

You can access feeds by using:

• My Feeds page.

• Related feeds hover menu.

• Get Feed List service operation.

Using the My Feeds Page

Access the My Feeds page.

Additional Instructions

The additional instructions section describes how to use the My Feeds page.

Search Feed Definitions

Feed Definitions

This grid lists the feeds that match the search criteria and that the viewer has permissions to view.

Using Related Feeds Hover Menus

You can view the feeds of a particular data type to which you have access through the related feeds hover menu on a page.

Notice the hover menu extending to show the query feeds that are available to this user:

Note. The hover menu is inactive when no feeds are available for that particular feed data type. Inactive hover menus can be hidden if you set the PTFP_SHOW_IA_MENU field to 0 in the PS_PTFP_OPTIONS table.

Using the Get Feed List Service Operation

The GetFeedList service operation (PTFP_GETFEEDLIST) returns a list of feeds managed by the Feed Publishing Framework using the OPML format. Users can save this file to the desktop, and share the file with other users who might want to access the same list. You can also use this file to import feeds into a feed reader.

In the file, feeds are organized in folders based on their feed data type. Only feeds visible to authenticated user of the request are returned. The Get Feed List operation provides capability to query feeds through the use of operational query parameters, the same way as the My Feeds component. Some examples of the parameters are:

PTFP_DATA_TYPE

PTFP_FEED_KEYWORD

PTFP_DSS_COUNT

PTFP_DSS_NAMEn

PTFP_DSS_VALUEn

PORTAL_NAME

LANGUAGE_CD

Note. PeopleSoft PeopleTools provides one Get Feed List service. You may develop your own services for specific feed data types.

Example of .opml File Exported From the My Feeds Page

OPML refers to Outline Processor Markup Language. It is the protocol used for exchanging feed lists between feed readers and aggregators. This is an example of an opml file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<opml version="2.0">
  <head>
    <dateCreated>Mon, 04 May 2009 16:32:27 GMT</dateCreated>
    <dateModified>Mon, 04 May 2009 16:32:27 GMT</dateModified>
    <ownerName>QE User</ownerName>
    <title>Feed Search Results</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <outline category="IB Generic Message Feeds" description="Generic Operation"⇒
 text="IB_GENERIC" title="ADMN_IB_GENERIC" type="rss" xmlUrl="http:⇒
//buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/GetScheduled⇒
Feed?FeedID=IB_GENERIC.V1&amp;ChildFeedID=ADMN_IB_GENERIC&amp;S=P&amp;PORTAL_NAME=⇒
EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
    <outline category="PS Query Feeds" description="Dimension Control Table" text=⇒
"CM_DIM_CTRL_TBL" title="ADMN_CM_DIM_CTRL_TBL" type="rss" xmlUrl="http:⇒
//buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/RealtimeQuery⇒
Feed?FEED_ID=ADMN_CM_DIM_CTRL_TBL&amp;PORTAL_NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"⇒
/>
    <outline category="PS Query Feeds" description="Message Set" text="CD_MSGSET"⇒
 title="ADMN_CD_MSGSET1" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW⇒
/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/RealtimeQueryFeed?FEED_ID=ADMN_CD_MSGSET1&amp;PORTAL_⇒
NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
    <outline category="IB Generic Message Feeds" description="User Profile" text=⇒
"User Profile Feed" title="ADMN_USER_PROFILE" type="rss" xmlUrl="http:⇒
//buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/GetScheduled⇒
Feed?FeedID=USER_PROFILE.VERSION_84&amp;ChildFeedID=ADMN_USER_PROFILE&amp;PORTAL_⇒
NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
    <outline category="List of Feeds" description="A feed of this data type⇒
 contains data of the specified PS Query." text="PS Query Feeds" title="ADMN_PS_⇒
QUERY_FEEDS" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/Http⇒
ListeningConnector/feeds/GetRealTimeFeed?FEED_ID=ADMN_PS_QUERY_FEEDS&amp;S=⇒
P&amp;PORTAL_NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
    <outline category="List of Feeds" description="A feed of this data type⇒
 contains worklist items of the current user." text="Worklist Feeds" title="ADMN_⇒
WORKLIST_FEEDS" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/Http⇒
ListeningConnector/feeds/GetRealTimeFeed?FEED_ID=ADMN_WORKLIST_FEEDS&amp;S=⇒
P&amp;PORTAL_NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
    <outline category="List of Feeds" description="A feed of this data type⇒
 contains list of published feeds of the specified data type." text="List of⇒
 Feeds" title="ADMN_LIST_OF_FEEDS" type="rss" xmlUrl="http:⇒
//buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/GetRealTimeFeed?FEED_⇒
ID=ADMN_LIST_OF_FEEDS&amp;S=P&amp;PORTAL_NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
    <outline category="PS Query Feeds" description="User ID's Access Activity"⇒
 text="User Access Activity" title="ADMN_PT_SEC_ACCESSLOG_USER" type="rss" xmlUrl=⇒
"http://buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/Realtime⇒
QueryFeed?FEED_ID=ADMN_PT_SEC_ACCESSLOG_USER&amp;PORTAL_NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_⇒
NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
    <outline category="PS Query Feeds" description="Hierarchy Map Table" text="CM_⇒
HIER_MAP_TBL" title="ADMN_CM_HIER_MAP_TBL" type="rss" xmlUrl="http:⇒
//buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/RealtimeQuery⇒
Feed?FEED_ID=ADMN_CM_HIER_MAP_TBL&amp;PORTAL_NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"⇒
/>
    <outline category="PS Query Feeds" description="Attribute mappings" text="CM_⇒
ATTRIBUTES" title="ADMN_CM_ATTRIBUTES" type="rss" xmlUrl="http:⇒
//buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/RealtimeQuery⇒
Feed?FEED_ID=ADMN_CM_ATTRIBUTES&amp;PORTAL_NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
    <outline category="Worklist Feeds" description="Worklist notifications" text=⇒
"Worklist Notification" title="ADMN_WORKLIST_ITEMS" type="rss" xmlUrl="http:⇒
//buffy.us.oracle.com:8920/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector/feeds/GetRealTimeFeed?FEED_⇒
ID=ADMN_WORKLIST_ITEMS&amp;PORTAL_NAME=EMPLOYEE&amp;NODE_NAME=QE_LOCAL"/>
  </body>
</opml>

Viewing Feeds

You can view feeds directly in the browser or by using a feed reader program.

To view feeds:

1. Click the feed link.

   The feed will open in the browser.

2. Alternatively, paste the URL into a feed reader.

This is an example of a feed in the browser: