News Feed Items
Background
- News feed items are tiles that appear on the user's homescreen
- Unlike other items that appear in a user's feed which are automatically created, news feed items are manually created by PicassoMD admins
- Some possible uses of news feed items are:
- Feature announcements
- Link to PicassoMD blog posts or videos
- Link to survey we want our users to take
- News feed items can be either High or Low priority
- High priority items will appear above all other news feed items other than New Referral Received and Referral Updates
- Low priority items will appear below all other news feed items and may not appear at all if a user has 15 or more higher priority items in their feed
- High priority items also have the megaphone icon while low priority items do not
Creating and Managing New Feed Items
- PicassoMD admins can create and manage News Feed items from the News Feed tab on the admin website
- To create a News Feed item, click on the link to "Create News Feed Item" OR you can start by duplicating an existing news feed item
- When creating a News Feed item you can specifiy:
- Whether it's high priority, as described above
- Headline (req for high priority only) = max 30 characters
- Body (req) = max 200 characters
- Starts date (req) = the first date the item will show in users' news feeds
- Expiration (req) = the last date the item will show in users' news feeds
- Link (optional) = user can selects what happens when a user taps on the news feed item:
- web URL - will open a browser in a new window
- screen within the PicassoMD app where the user will be taken to
- Only one of the above options can be applied
- Leave both blank if there should be no action upon tapping the item
- PicassoMD admins can also view and manage existing news feed items (e.g. update the text or expiration date)
