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Creating News Topics

A news topic is a set of search criteria used to find current news on topics of interest within a news package. Table 10 describes the types of news topics available in Siebel eBriefings.

Table 10. Siebel eContent Services News Topic Types
News Topic Type
Comments
Administrator Defined
Siebel Systems allows you to create news topics based on the criteria you specify. News topics that you create in the Administrator Defined view are available to employees within the access groups associated with the news package. Employees with access to the selected news package can choose to include the news topic on a personalized view in the Siebel application.
Predefined
Siebel Systems delivers a predefined set of search topics that allow end users to receive current news on topics of interest to them (based on their tracking profile selections). Search topics include headline news, local and regional news, industry news, business topics, sports, health, and more. The search criteria for predefined topics cannot be modified. The topics can only be inactivated or activated.
User Defined
Siebel Systems allows users who are associated with the appropriate news group to create news topics based on specified criteria. Administrators can view and manage news topics created by users in the User Defined view.

As an administrator, you can create, modify, and delete administrator and user- defined news topics.

To create a news topic

  1. From the application-level menu, choose Site Map > Briefings Administration > News Topic Manager.
  2. In the News Packages list, query to find the news package for which you want to create a news topic.
  3. Click the Administrator Defined tab.
  4. In the News Topics list, click New, and then complete the fields.

    5. The following table describes the fields for the News Topic record.

    Field
    Comments
    Inactive
    Select the check box to inactivate or activate the selected news topic. A check mark appears in this column when the news topic is inactive. Users can select only active news topics in their tracking profile.
    If you later mark a user-subscribed news topic as inactive, the user no longer sees news for that topic.
    Name
    Enter an identifying name for the topic. Users see this text description in the Add News Topics form. If the user selects this news topic, this text also appears as a section heading in the My News section of their My Briefing page.
    Query
    Enter the query to be submitted in the news topic search. Queries can be expressed as simple words or strings, as is customary with advanced search syntaxes in most search engines. Multiple terms that do not contain a Boolean expression (and, or) are treated as a phrase. Boolean operators (and, or) are recognized. Quote marks can be used to demark a phrase. When an operator occurs within quotes it is treated as part of the phrase.

  5. Click Preview to see the topic final format.

To edit a news topic

  1. From the application-level menu, choose Site Map > Briefings Administration > News Topic Manager.
  2. In the News Packages list, query to find the news package you want to edit.
  3. Click one of the following view tabs:
  4. In the News Topics list, query to find the news topic you want to modify.
  5. Modify the fields as needed.

News topics are preconfigured as active. You can use the News Topics Administration screen to inactivate or activate news topics.

To activate or inactivate a news topic

  1. From the application-level menu, choose Site Map > Briefings Administration > News Topic Manager.
  2. In the News Packages list, query to find the news topic you want to activate or inactivate.
  3. Click one of the following view tabs:
  4. In the News Topics list, query to find the news topic you want to activate or inactivate.
  5. In the Inactive field, check to make the news topic inactive or remove the check to make the topic active.

 Siebel eBriefings Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003