Activity Feed widget (view types & post filters)

The Activity Feed widget puts the Activity Feed on a Home page: a post composer at the top, and beneath it the stream of user posts and system posts from across your account.

The posts themselves are documented with the Posts feature — writing a post, tagging contacts with @, attaching files, setting who can see it, and reacting, commenting or creating a task from a post are all covered there, starting with Posts — Overview (Document ID: 306). This guide covers the widget: adding it to a Home page, and the reference for the view and filter controls in its own Settings panel. Those controls belong to the widget rather than to Posts, and this is where each option is described in full.

Adding the widget

1. Open the Home page tab you want it on — My homepage or a shared page.
2. Click Add widget in the bottom-right and choose Activity Feed.
3. Position and size the tile. On a shared page, save the layout from the tab bar's 3-dot menu (Edit current page → Save); on My homepage the layout is kept automatically. See Widgets — adding, arranging, resizing and saving layout (Document ID: 299).

The feed scrolls inside the tile, so how tall you make the widget decides how much of the stream you see without scrolling.

Choosing which posts appear

The widget can be narrowed so the feed shows the activity you care about rather than everything happening in the account.

1. Click the 3-dot menu in the widget's top-right to open Settings.
2. Under View type, choose one option:
   • All posts — the default view: user posts and system posts together.
   • Hide system posts — leaves the posts people have written, setting aside the entries SwiftFox generates automatically.
   • Hide bulk posts — hides posts generated by a bulk action, for example an email blast. Useful when a single send would otherwise fill the feed.
   • Hide all other posts.

The difference between user posts and system posts — and what generates each — is explained in System posts vs user posts (Document ID: 311).

Only one view type applies at a time, so you cannot combine (for example) Hide system posts and Hide bulk posts. In practice: switch to Hide system posts or Hide bulk posts when the feed is noisy, then back to All posts when you want the full picture.

Filtering the feed by tag

The same Settings panel has a Filter posts section for searching the feed by tag.

1. Under Filter type, choose Hashtags or Post tags.
2. Use the search field below it to find and select the tag you want the feed narrowed to.

Hashtags are typed into the body of a post; post tags are the account-configured labels chosen in the composer. Both are covered in Post tags and hashtags (Document ID: 309). Use this section when you are researching a specific topic, campaign or follow-up.

Removing the widget

Open the widget's Settings and click Remove widget at the foot of the panel. On a shared page this removes the widget for everyone who can see that page once the layout is saved.

Related guides

• Posts — Overview (Document ID: 306) — what a post is, who can see it, and where posts appear.
• Creating a post (Document ID: 310) and Interacting with posts (Document ID: 307) — the composer, and reactions, comments and tasks on a post.
• System posts vs user posts (Document ID: 311) — what generates the automatic entries in the feed.
• Post tags and hashtags (Document ID: 309) — the tags the widget's filter searches.
• Filtering the Activity Feed (Document ID: 315) — the short task-oriented version of this page.
• Widgets — adding, arranging, resizing and saving layout (Document ID: 299) — arranging and saving your Home page.