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

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.

Thank you John.
Please find our similar business case to use News in sites:
1) the business users are using Site as User Interface
2) they can create records and there would be more approvals, and other details added for the particular record
3) based on the loggedIn user/role, we need to display the messages regarding what is going on in the system
4) the messages might be targeted for the specific user/group/general
5) as we do not have News exposed to Sites, we need to build this using custom tables.
Thanks!

Saravanarajan,
Thanks for the input. So are you looking to add record news to sites? Or are you looking to add news entries to other places?

Saravanarajan,
Thanks for the input. So are you looking to add record news to sites? Or are you looking to add news entries to other places?

Hi John,
We are looking for both, to add record news to sites and also adding new entries as comments/messages with reply option in another scenario. Thanks!

Hey John!

I actually have a similar use case for implementing news entries to as a SAIL component (which could be used anywhere such as a Site, Record Dashboard, etc).

I am essentially building a process very similar to Appian's Case Management process, but I think it would be more presentable to replace the comments grid with the news feature for back and forth between parties.

My vision is that when a case is created, a news feed is created and the news entry ID is captured and can be tagged to that record or simply stored for reference. I would then like to have a SAIL component (eg - a!newsEntry()) that could be displayed in any SAIL interface and any communication would take place inline in that component.

This would be great for cases when we do not necessarily need to store the commentary to an entity or a pv, but could utilize Appian's news feature for all the commentary on a news entry with just a news feed ID.

Let me know if you have further questions, I'd be happy to explain further.