Viewing Content Channels in the Demo Portal

The SAS Information Delivery Portal allows you to subscribe to content channels, which provide syndicated content published by information providers. An example of a content channel is a news service that publishes continually updated information, either of general interest or related to a specialized topic.

The Home window of the demo portal contains a subwindow titled Content Channel Subscriptions, as shown below:

The Content Channels list in this window contains two sample content channels. The channel names and descriptions are displayed along with two icons that represent subscription management actions (). The first action displays channel properties, and the second action allows you to quickly unsubscribe from the channel. Once you unsubscribe, the channel disappears from your list of subscriptions. It can be added back only by resubscribing. You can do this using the Personalize tool.

To view the contents of the Top News Stories channel, select the arrow () next to the channel name. The list expands to show current news stories that have been published to this channel, as in the example below. (A different list of stories will appear on your screen, since this channel is updated continually.)

To view the full text of a story, select one of the highlighted links. The story will be displayed in a new browser window.

When you are finished viewing, close the window that contains the story. Then click on the downward arrow () to collapse the channel content.

In addition to content and publication channels, the SAS Information Delivery Portal provides other methods of accessing and evaluating information. These methods are demonstrated on the Reports and Data Sources windows. We will start by looking at the Reports window.