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Can we create some MyLC news feeds?

After I gave the presentation with Tom at the Admin Assembly (April 8), Charlie Ahlquist asked about an interesting possibility:

So, I currently work in Campus Living, and something that we’ve been trying to work with is advertising to the residents/students on campus.  When you showed the new “My LC” page, I got an idea.  I was wondering if it would be possible for us to set up an RSS Feed for each of the Complexes on campus (SOA, Platt-Howard, Copeland, Forest, and Apartzfeld) as well as one for all On-Campus Residents.  Then, would it be possible for us to have the default be for students who live in those complexes (which is stored in Colleague) are subscribed to the appropriate feed for their residence?

This is a great question and it is certainly possible at our end. We can setup groups in LiveWhale where you could publish news and information for residential units, or other such organization groups. These groups can push RSS which is then consumable by MyLC.

In this case, there is an additional wrinkle in that we don’t have direct access to Colleague. (In other words, we cannot directly ask Colleague for this information.) Colleague stores a great deal of financial data, so really, we don’t want this kind of access. However, we do have access to some of its data is through nightly dumps of select information and it looks as though we would have access to their building.

At this point I’m inclined to put this on a nice-to-do list for now until we get MyLC here and installed, and perhaps plan to look at it after the launch, since we’ll have the summer to iron out some kinks before the students return.

Also published: https://media.zendesk.com/forums/22045/entries/32110

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