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HealthShare Personal Community News Setup Guide





1. Overview

RSS (Rich Site Summary, and also known as Really Simple Syndication) is a standardized format for delivering frequently changing web content. RSS feeds are streams of RSS data that sites can display. RSS feeds are available from major national and international news organizations as well as from various other news organizations (such as for local or medical news). Personal Community displays RSS feed content on both its home page and on the News page.

The RSS feed on the unauthenticated home page (on a browser) displays the three most recent news items; this number is fixed. On the News page, the 50 most recent news items are displayed, across all feeds.


2. Enabling News

To enable news in the Workbench:

  1. Log into the Workbench as a user with the Configuration Manager role.
  2. Go to the Configuration Application page ( Setup > Configuration Application ) and select the Feature Control tab.
  3. Select Edit Mode to make edits to the fields described in the following steps.
  4. In the News box, select the Enable News checkbox.
  5. Select Submit at the bottom of the page.

3. Adding or Removing a News Feed

3.1. Adding a News Feed

To add a new RSS feed:

  1. Log into the Workbench as a user with the Configuration Manager role.

  2. Select the Content tab.

  3. From the Content tab’s menu choices, select RSS Feeds . This displays the RSS Feeds page.

  4. To add a feed, select the Add a new Feed . This action displays the RSS Feed Details page.

  5. On the RSS Feed Details page, complete the following fields:

    • URL — Required. The URL of the RSS feed to make available.

    • Title — Optional. The name of the RSS feed as visible to patients.

    • Built-in Feed — Ensure that the Make this feed a global feed for all patients checkbox is selected if you wish to have this feed displayed in Personal Community.

    • SSL/TLS Configuration Name — Optional. The name of the SSL/TLS configuration, if this is required for any of your RSS feeds. To create an SSL/TLS configuration, do so in your InterSystems IRIS for Health instance; for more information, see the documentation .

  6. To save the feed, select Save .

IMPORTANT

If you want to modify an existing RSS feed, you must delete the existing feed, then add a new one as described above.

3.2. Removing a News Feed

To remove an RSS feed:

  1. Log into the Workbench as a user with the Configuration Manager role.

  2. Select the Content tab.

  3. From the Content tab’s menu choices, select RSS Feeds. This displays the RSS Feeds page.

  4. On the RSS Feeds page, select the feed from the list. This displays the RSS Feed Details page.

  5. On the RSS Feed Details page, select the Delete button.

  6. On the confirmation dialog, select OK .

4. Updating News Feed Content

To update RSS feed content in Personal Community, there is a system task that downloads stories for all the RSS feeds for which there are subscriptions. This is the HSPortal.System.Task.RSSUpdater . The update runs once a day at midnight by default, but you can configure it to run as frequently as needed.