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Setting Up News Packages

A News Package is a subscription to a collection of third-party content sources offered by Siebel eContent Services. Your organization may subscribe to several news packages in several different languages. For example, your organization may subscribe to general sources in French, English, or Spanish languages or to specific sources for your industry, such as Finance, High Technology, and Life Sciences. As an administrator, you must set up your Siebel eBriefings application to include content from the news packages to which you subscribe.

To set up a news package

  1. From the application-level menu, choose Site Map > Briefings
    Administration > News Topic Manager.
  2. In the News Packages list, click New and complete the fields for the new record.

    3. The following table describes the fields in the new package record.

    Field
    Comments
    Access Group
    Select the access groups that have access to the news package.
    Inactive
    A flag used by the administrator to control employee access to the content in the news package. By adding a check mark in the field, the news package is inactivated for the associated access groups.
    Name
    Provide a name for the external news package. It is recommended that you use the package name provided in your letter.
    Parameter
    Enter the parameter exactly as it is provided in your letter. This parameter indicates to the Siebel Server the precise content to retrieve.

  3. In the bottom applet, click on the Administrator Defined tab and create news topics. The topics created here by the administrator are displayed for the end user in the My News Topics view, when the user clicks on the Administrator Defined tab.

    4. The Predefined tab shows news topics that come out of the box with news packages. For example, the Finance News news package comes with news topics like Business News: Advertising. As an administrator, you can inactivate news topics. Inactivated news topics do not appear as choices for the end user in the My News Topics view. For more information on creating a news topic, see Creating News Topics


 Siebel eBriefings Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003