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2974088 - Verify Web Feed URL for News Authoring In SAP Business ByDesign.

Symptom

This document will guide you on how to Verify Web Feed URL for News Authoring In SAP Business ByDesign.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. In the Application and User Management work center, choose the News Authoring view.
  2. Click New.

  3. The New Company Feed quick activity opens.
  4. Select the radio button next to Web Feed and enter the URL of the Web feed you wish to add in the URL field.
  5. Click Verify URL to make sure that the URL is correct/Incorrect.

Cause

Web Feed URL was not pointing to .rss or .xml format.

Resolution

In the Web Feed URL you need to use the URL which points to the .rss or .xml format.

You can follow the below steps and reproduce the issue which interms gives you the correct result.

  1. In the Application and User Management work center, choose the News Authoring view.
  2. Click New.
  3. The New Company Feed quick activity opens.
  4. Select the radio button next to Web Feed and enter the URL of the Web feed you wish to add in the URL field.
  5. Click Verify URL to make sure that the URL "https://news.google.com.au/news/rss" which gives you the valid URL as shown below:Web Feed.jpg

See Also

Help Portal link: News Authoring Quick Guide

Web Feed url will point to .rss like this example in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#Example.

Keywords

News Authoring, Verify Web Feed URL, Invalid URL, Valid URL, Company Feed, News feed, New Company Feed. , KBA , news authoring , company feed , new company feed , verify web feed url , news feed , SRD-CC-WEK , Workplace Embedded Knowledge Transfer , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions