Use the My Feed gadget to provide your digital workplace users with a personalized feed of content based on their channel subscriptions. By default, the gadget displays content from blogs, calendars, forums, microblogs, and wikis that users are subscribed to as items in a feed. However, settings exist to modify what items display in the feed and their sort order.

Sections in this article:

• Considerations and caveats
• Set up
• Settings
• Using it
• Empty feed

Considerations and caveats

• Subscriptions: Only content items associated with channel subscriptions are displayed in the gadget. Content subscriptions are not displayed.
• Channel support: Only blogs, calendars, forums, microblogs, and wikis are supported by the gadget. Folders and tasks are not supported.
• Language support: Feed items are shown in a user's preferred language as long as the content creator has provided a translation.
• Performance: If you are finding that the feed is loading slowly, you can try to improve performance by hiding the like button.

Set up

Follow these steps to set up this gadget:

1. Place an Integrations widget on a page, space, or dashboard. For more information, see Placing and setting up a widget. While the widget can be placed anywhere on a page, for the best experience, place it in a side column.
2. Select the placed widget's Edit button.
3. Under Integration Library, select Igloo Gadget Depot.
4. Select the My Feeds gadget from the library.
5. Review and make changes to the settings on the Options and Appearance tabs. You can find details about the widget's settings in the Settings section below.
6. In the widget editor, select Update to apply your changes or Cancel to discard them.  
7. At the bottom of your page, space, or dashboard, select Publish or Save as Draft to save your changes.

Settings

Options tab

General Options

Setting	Description
Title	Enter a title for the widget. The title appears as a heading above the widget's contents. You should use the title to provide context to the widget and better structure a page's content by clearly denoting different sections. When entering a title, you do so only for your currently selected language. If your digital workplace supports multiple languages, you should select Translation and enter a title for each supported language.   This field can contain a maximum of 140 characters.
Title link	Enter the URL of a location in your digital workplace. Users who click the widget's title, if it has one, will go to this location. Whether you enter the link as a relative URL or an absolute URL does not matter, it will convert to an absolute URL the next time you edit the widget. This field can contain a maximum of 2,083 characters.
Description	Enter a description for the widget. The description appears between the title and the widget's contents. You can use this text to provide information to users about the widget. When entering a description, you do so only for your currently selected language. If your digital workplace supports multiple languages, you should select Translation and enter a description for each supported language.

blog,forum, microblog

blog,calendar,forum,microblog,wiki

Display Options

Setting	Description
Number of items to display	Select the maximum number of items to display in the feed. Options include: 5 10 15 20 This limit is applied after items are sorted. As a result, the Sort order can result in the feed showing different items. The default value is 10.
Sort order	Select the order in which feed items are displayed. Options include: Created: The date the item was created. Published: The date the item was published. Modified: The date the item was last modified. The most recent items always display at the top of the feed. The default value is Created.
Limit results to same location as the gadget	Select to only display content from channels nested below this gadget's location. For example, if the gadget were placed on the Company Newspage of the digital workplace shown below, the channels displayed in the feed would change as follows based on the value of this option: Selected: Only items from CEO Updates, Corporate News, and Town Halls would be included in the feed.  Unselected: Items from CEO Updates, Corporate News, Town Halls, Upcoming Events, Classifieds, and Chatter would be displayed in the feed. This setting is unselected by default.
Hide likes	Select to not display the like button on feed items. The like button displays the current number of likes on an item, and users can select it to add a like. This setting is unselected by default.
Hide comments	Select to not display the comment button on feed items. The comment button displays the current number of comments on an item, and users can select it to go to the comment section of that item. This setting is unselected by default.
Hide views	Select to not display the number of views on feed items. This setting is unselected by default.
Disable the like button	Select to disable the functionality of the like button. The number of likes will still be displayed, but users cannot select the button to add a like. This setting is unselected by default.
Disable the add a comment button	Select to disable the functionality of the comment button. The number of comments will still be displayed, but users cannot select the button to go to the comment section of that item. This setting is unselected by default.

Appearance tab

Using it

On page load, the feed shows a list of titles associated with content from configured channels you are subscribed to. You can select a title to expand it, revealing the following information:

• Summary
• Read more link
• Number of likes (if enabled)
• Number of comments (if enabled)
• Number of views (if enabled)

While viewing an expanded feed item, you can:

• Select Read more to go to the content.
• Select the likes button to add a like (if enabled).
• Select the comments button to go to the comment section of the content (if enabled).

Empty feed

A feed may be empty for the following reasons:

• You are not subscribed to any supported channels (blogs, calendars, forums, microblogs, and wikis).
• You are not subscribed to any supported channels that the gadget is configured to display.
• The supported channels that you are subscribed to don't have any content.