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Aurea Social News Stream module

Overview

The News Stream module for Aurea Social provides RSS and ATOM feed aggregation, filtering and distribution capabilities which are tightly integrated into the Aurea Social base module.

News Stream also provides a way to easily monitor social streams from several major services.

News Stream is an optional module which requires the functionality provided in the base Aurea Social product.

However, it includes a completely separate managed service application, separate database, and its own jobs to provide its added functionality.

The News Stream module provides four alternate ways to get RSS and ATOM feed content to users. Three of these are based on a systemwide set of feeds that are configured by a News Stream administrator.

These three are:

The News Query web part
The News Search web part
Stream display of articles matching user-defined keywords

Of these, only the last one gives the end user any control over the content seen, although this content is still limited to the admin-defined system feeds.

For further details, see the Defining the system feed collection section to learn how to define the feeds that is used by these, and the Specifying News Stream Administrators section for how to specify who can define these feeds.

If deploying the News Query web part, you’ll also need to follow the instructions in the Filtering - Creating and Managing Queries section first.

The fourth way allows users to subscribe directly to any feed for which they have the subscription information, including integration with individual's external Twitter, Yammer, SalesForce, and Dynamics CRM accounts. Periodic alerts in the user’s stream informs of new articles that have arrived in the user’s subscribed feeds.

All four means of distribution are optional. In particular, administrators can maintain complete control over what feed content gets into the system by not allowing direct user subscriptions.

Unchecking the Enable News Activities setting removes both the options for stream display of articles, either by keyword matching or by direct subscription.

To eliminate just the direct subscriptions option, the Allow Personal Subscriptions option should be unchecked. Both these options are described below in the Allowing or disallowing personalization section.

For further details, see the Adjusting article retrieval, distribution, and retention/cleanup behaviors section for details on configuring the jobs that retrieve, distribute, and clean up feed content.

As of the 4.0 version of News Stream, deployment on either SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013 is supported.

Correspondingly, this module no longer indicates in its name a SharePoint version number (2010 or 2013).

For further details see, Aurea Social user guide.

Specifying News Stream administrators

Correcting basic failures

Adjusting article retrieval, distribution, and retention/cleanup behaviors

Retrieval

Distribution

Cleanup/Retention

Central management of feed subscriptions

Defining the system feed collection

Pushing personal subscriptions