can we incorporate NEWS Feeds in an Interface or Site ?

Hi Mandar,

Can you try in this manner.

a!richTextImage(
image: a!imageField(
label: "Example",

images: a!webImage(
source: "",
link: a!newsEntryLink(
entry: "f-109"
)
)
)
)

Mandar,
We are exploring the possibility of including news in sites. As part of this research, we are looking for more details on the use cases or benefits of doing this. Can you please provide a bit more details on your specific business use case for including news in sites or on a interface?

Hi John, Thanks for your interest.
So to explain you more about this use case...

1. We at HSBC use Appian to create a process around data that need to be collected from all over the globe, processed and analysed for Regulatory reporting of different countries like UK, USA etc.
2. So we have site which is accessed by users across the globe for their Tasks and other activities.
3. As part of process currently the HSBC head office or other regional HSBC offices releases NEWS feed about Economic Scenarios, Data collection processes etc ( Basically NEWS feed about what users should be doing).
4. Currently NEWS feed is on TEMPO and User uses site, so its a toggle for them between two interfaces. which I think is not a good user experience.
5. To handle this I want to incorporate the news feed in SITE landing page so that its a uniform user experience.

Hope this make sense to you. Please feel free to contact me if you need any more inputs.

Regards,
Mandar

Hi John, Thanks for your interest.
So to explain you more about this use case...

1. We at HSBC use Appian to create a process around data that need to be collected from all over the globe, processed and analysed for Regulatory reporting of different countries like UK, USA etc.
2. So we have site which is accessed by users across the globe for their Tasks and other activities.
3. As part of process currently the HSBC head office or other regional HSBC offices releases NEWS feed about Economic Scenarios, Data collection processes etc ( Basically NEWS feed about what users should be doing).
4. Currently NEWS feed is on TEMPO and User uses site, so its a toggle for them between two interfaces. which I think is not a good user experience.
5. To handle this I want to incorporate the news feed in SITE landing page so that its a uniform user experience.

Hope this make sense to you. Please feel free to contact me if you need any more inputs.

Regards,
Mandar

Mandar,
Thank you very much for the information. Is the news (e.g. Economic Scenarios) being added by your offices added through process or a message or a post? Is it related to a record and have record tags?

Hi John,

They are mostly added as a Post, with no record tag.

Hello,

I was just wondering, with this new 18.1 upgrade we will have the web component facility available.

Can that be used for populating news in Sites?

Mandar,
No, this would not work.

In case you'd like to know what Appian has added in the 18.1 Release, here is a link to the latest release notes. 

Best, Aly

Record news has been added to sites via a configuration in the site designer.  So if this is on, any record you have included in a site will show the news record view.  Here is a link to the product doc:  https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.1/sites_object.html#configure-new-site

However, the news feed is not yet available in sites.