Following channels from widgets

Many channel-specific widgets (Blog Articles, Calendar Events, Forum Topics, Microblog Posts, and Recent Activity) display a feed of content often sourced from multiple underlying channels. To stay up to date with new content on the channels displayed in the widget, you can subscribe to all of them by selecting the Follow button located in the upper-right corner of the widget. This will result in you receiving email notifications when new content is added to these channels.

The follow bell at the top of a blog articles widget.

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Follow button

The Follow button has two different appearances:

  • Hollow: Indicates that you are not following all of the channels displayed in the widget to which you have at least Read access. Select Follow to subscribe to all unfollowed channels you have access to, at the frequency of your choice. Your frequency selection will not impact any subscriptions that you already have.
  • Solid: Indicates that you are currently following all channels displayed in the widget to which you have at least Read access. Select Unfollow and then Manage Subscriptions to manage your subscriptions on your Subscriptions page, where you can filter to only display the subscriptions to channels displayed in the widget (up to a maximum of 30 channels).

 If this bell icon is not visible, it is likely that it has not been configured by your administrator.

Follow channels from widgets

If the Follow button is hollow, you can select it to subscribe to the channels displayed in the widget. 

  1. Select Follow.
  2. Select what frequency to subscribe (Instant, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly).
  3. Select Follow to create your subscriptions to the channels displayed in the widget.

Manage channel subscriptions displayed in the widget

If the Follow button is solid, you can select it to quickly access your Subscriptions page filtered to only the channels displayed in the widget.

  1. Select Follow.
  2. Select Manage Subscriptions to navigate to your Subscriptions page.
  3. While on your Subscriptions page, you can modify subscription frequency and unfollow content. See Managing Subscriptions to learn more.