Discover the latest and popular content with the feed. Simpplr's feed ensures users connect with the most engaging and relevant content. There are two types of feeds:
App managers decide which type of feed is seen through Feed governance settings.
Home feed
Users can locate their Home feed on their Home dashboard or on its own page, depending on the layout the user or App manager has chosen. Through the feed, users can share thoughts, ask questions, give recognition, tag other users or sites, and post Files, Links or Polls. Users can share posts with followers, with a site or with a specific person.
Note, when tagging other users in a feed post, they will receive a notification. However, when tagging an entire site, the site members will not be notified of that post.
Types of Home feed posts
Timeline entry
- Content published:
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- Single entry
- Grouped posts
- Single entry
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Note:
If Timeline only option is selected in the settings, only the single entry form will show up. If either of the other two options is selected, the grouped entry form may show up based on the pagination grouping rule.
Smart posts
- Must read
- Popular content from sites and people you follow
- Upcoming events
- Celebrations
Comments on content
Feed posts
- Feed posts
- Polls. Note, polls cannot be edited once published, nor are there any analytics available to view. To see poll results, navigate to the feed post itself.
- Content shares
- Feed post shares
Site feed
Site feeds can be found by navigating to a site. They're populated with content added to the site, or @mentions referencing the site.
Note:
Site feed posts are approved at the app level, not the site level. This means System admins and App managers have edit access to feed. Site managers cannot control feed posts on their sites.
Feed posts
There are multiple types of feed posts.
Must read posts
When content is marked as must read, a notification will be sent to site members. The must read content will also appear on the home feed. Unread must read content will be displayed above the post box.
Upcoming events
All upcoming events for next 7 days would be displayed in this post (starting from the latest basis date and time). All the events from the site the user follows or where the user is invited, will be included, and all the events where user RSVP'd "no", will be excluded.
People posts (birthdays, anniversaries, new hires)
People posts are for anything about the people in your organization. However, not all people-related updates in an organization will be relevant to every user. To address this, Simpplr's algorithm shows personalized results for each user based on their profile and relationships in their organization.
Site mentions
Users can @mention public sites from within another site. For example, you can tag Human Resources from the Solutions Consulting site feed. Private sites can only be @mentioned in their own site feed.
Feed governance settings:
The feed allows employees to share ideas and collaborate with their colleagues. When configuring feed, select any of the three options, which will set precedent for feed settings throughout the application. App managers can toggle these options in Manage > Manage application > Governance > Timeline & feed.
- Timeline
- Timeline & content comments
- Timeline & content comments and feed posts (Recommended)
Definition of Timeline: In the three setting options above, the Timeline includes both Timeline entry and Smart post types of feed components.
If the Timeline option is selected, Simpplr will only display single entries. If the other options are selected, Simpplr will display both single entries and grouped entries, based on the pagination rule.
These settings will apply to the home feed, as well as the site feed of all sites.
Comments
Hi Brooke. I'm not sure which screen you're referring to by "this screen" but if you're sharing content, you'll see this page, which should have the option at the bottom to share to home feed or site feed. If you share it to home feed, it'll post a preview to the home feed, but if a user clicks it and they're not a member of the site where it's hosted (if that site is private or unlisted), they won't have access. In short, no permissions to content are overwritten with this functionality. Hope this helps!
I'm not seeing that option. What we're trying to do is share a page from the actual page.![]()
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I'm using the comment to attach screenshots but it looks like they're not showing up. At the bottom of the page, hitting the universal sharing button and then from there, we don't have an option to share to site or home feed anywhere.
Hi Brooke. It could be your app management settings in Manage > Application > Governance that are not allowing you to share content from that page. If the Timeline & feed settings are set only to Timeline, no one will have the share option on content. Can you make sure the third option here is chosen, then see if the share button is there?
Is there a recommended size when employees post an image in the feed?
Hi Rob. While there isn't a requirement for feed images, any image you upload is automatically resized to a max 1600px h/w. This article has image size recommendations for all images on the platform.
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