The My Subscriptions component from Jint allows each user to customize their news feed by choosing the topics that interest them. Unlike the News component, whose settings are defined by the administrator, My Subscriptions puts customization in the hands of the end user: each person selects the terms they want to subscribe to and only displays news corresponding to their favorites.

This component is particularly suitable for intranets with varied editorial content, where each employee has different interests.

Table of Contents

1. Add the Component
2. Component Settings
3. Display Options
4. End User Usage

Add the Component

1. Open the SharePoint page edit mode by clicking Edit at the top right of the page.
2. At the desired location, click the + button to open the component catalog.
3. Search or browse the catalog to select the My Subscriptions component under the "Communication and Collaboration" category.
4. The component is added at the chosen location.

Component Settings

The settings for the My Subscriptions component are accessible from the page editor configuration panel. It consists of four categories:

1. Description
2. Layout
3. News Feed Settings
4. Display Options

Layout

In this section, you can configure:

The layout

Four layouts are available:

• Hero
• Top Story
• Vertical Tiles
• Horizontal Tiles

Number of news items to display

You can choose a number of news items between 1 and 30 using the slider or by entering the value directly.

Sorting criteria

You can sort the news by:

• Creation date
• Modification date
• Publication date
• A custom property

Component title

You can customize the text, size, font, and color of the title displayed above the component.

News Feed Settings

News source

Defines the origin of the news retrieved by the component:

• All sites: news comes from all sites the user has access to.
• A list of sites: news comes from selected sites, provided the user has access to them.
• This site: only news published on the current site is displayed.

Available subscriptions

Defines the sets of terms offered to the user in the subscription selection panel. Click + Add a term to open the selector and choose accessible terms.

 

Default subscriptions

Allows pre-selecting terms for users who have not yet made a choice. The component displays articles available in the page language.

The Include untranslated news option also displays news that does not have a version in the page language.

Advanced settings

Two advanced options are available:

• Define a KQL query: allows supplementing filters with a custom query. The query is added to the current filters. No validation is performed beforehand.
  See Microsoft documentation on KQL queries
• Enable multi-geo feature: activate if your Microsoft 365 tenant is configured in a multi-geographic environment.

Display Options

Customize news display

Click the Customize button to open the display configuration panel. You can choose the information shown on each news item:

• "Likes" mentions
• "Like" button
• Article sharing
• Terms (with selection of displayable terms)
• Number of views
• Date: creation, modification, publication, or a custom property
• Author: of the article, last modifier, or a custom property

All changes are immediately visible in the component.

Header

For the Horizontal Tiles, Vertical Tiles, and Top Story layouts, you can display a link at the top of the component, allowing, for example, to redirect the user to an extended news browsing page.

Footer

For the Horizontal Tiles and Top Story layouts, you can display a See More button at the bottom of the component, allowing the user to load more.

Behavior

• Hide if nothing to display: the component is not visible if no news matches the user's subscriptions.
• Hide on mobile: the component is not displayed on mobile devices.

Visibility

The Show in mobile mode and by email option controls whether the component is visible in these two contexts.

End User Usage

Once the component is added to the page, each user can personalize their display without administrator intervention.

To choose subscriptions:

1. Click the Choose My Subscriptions button at the top right of the component.

2. A panel opens with available terms organized by term sets.

   

   
   
    

3. Check the desired terms in one or more term sets.
4. Confirm the selection.

The component then only displays news associated with the selected terms. The choices are unique to each user and saved from one visit to the next.