Overview

Users see New streams listed across the top of the News page. As a Community Manager, you can create and manage the streams to show a different selection of content to different audiences on the News page.

This article provides the steps to create news streams for specific divisions.

Environment

• Jive Interactive Intranet
• Jive Core

Process

To create a News stream so that specific users see content relevant to them, follow the below steps:

1. Go to the Home page and click  next to News to create a new stream.

   Note: You will only be able to see this icon if you are a Community Manager or have Manage News Streams permissions.

2. Under Create custom streams for, select Specific Users. This opens the Edit News Stream page.

3. Assign a title to the new stream, e.g., "Management Ideas," or "My Team News;" this is the stream name users will see on the News page.

   Tip: Make the stream title work for every rule you are going to create for the particular stream. For example, you could create a heading called "Management Ideas" and then create different rules that direct new content from the Finance groups to the Finance managers, blog posts from the Technical Managers' group to Engineering managers, and so on. You could then add a stream rule targeting content from Human Resources' management groups to all these management groups because those management ideas can apply to any manager.

4. Select Create Stream Rule.

5. Specify stream rules to filter users. For each rule, do the following:
   1. Under Places/Blog, enter or select the place or a blog from which you want the stream to pull content.
      Tip! If you see both a place and the place's blog listed, note that selecting the blog would post less content in the stream. In other words, selecting a place means any new content created there shows up in the stream. Selecting the blog means only blog posts show up.
   2. Under Audience, enter the user and group of users who must be able to view the stream. You can also enter profile field values. For more information on user groups see Managing User Groups.
      Note: You also have the option to select Create profile filter so that you can filter your audience based on a combination of profile fields.
   3. Click on Save the stream filter and return to the stream rules configuration page. You can create up to 100 rules for a stream.

6. Under Notify Users, select whether if you want the stream's users to receive email or mobile notifications every time new content is posted in the place or blog.

   Tip: Generally speaking, we recommend setting this to off. However, you will likely want to enable notifications on the most critical content that your users cannot miss. Keep in mind that if notifications get noisy, users may stop reading the content.

7. Click Save.

8. Click Publish Layout.