A document feed is a live feed group that is associated with a record, such as an
incident or change.
Document feeds allow users to work on tasks and other records through the live feed interface.
Users can post messages in live feed that are automatically maintained as comments or work notes
on the record, if the record has these journal fields.
The benefits of using document feeds include the following.
- Improving communication between users working on the same record.
- Improving visibility into progress for end users.
- Providing a single place to see updates on multiple records.
- Saving conversation history in the record so that knowledge is not lost in an email
chain.
To use document feeds, activate the Live Feed Document plugin, which is active by default in
new instances. See Use live feed to work on records to learn how to use this feature.
The system automatically creates a document group for the feed when a user follows or shows a
record on live feed. The system also creates a document group when a user creates a new record on
a table that has live feed enabled.
The following list describes features of the document feed group.
- Is unlisted; it does not appear when users view all groups on live feed.
- Automatically approves membership for every user who can access the record.
- Uses the record number as the group name.
- Uses the record short description as a group description.
- Maintains all messages posted to live feed on the record, if the record has a journal field
for comments. If the record has a standard text field for comments, each live post overwrites
the field value.
- Maintains all messages posted on the record in live feed if the record has a journal field
for comments. When the group is created, existing messages are added to the document feed.
A user who participates in live feed becomes a member of the group.
