RSS syndication
by Vinita Choudhary, Pallika Majumdar, Munwar Shariff, Amita Bhandari
Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
- Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
- Table of Contents
- Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Co-Authors
- Acknowledgements
- About the Reviewers
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to Alfresco
- 2. Installing Alfresco
- Installing Alfresco
- Out of the box installation architecture
- Choosing the right installation option
- Installing on Microsoft Windows
- Full installation
- Installation of the Alfresco Tomcat bundle
- Installation of other Alfresco Components
- Installation folder structure
- Starting and stopping Alfresco as a console application
- Configuring Alfresco as a Windows service
- Installing on Linux
- Installing extensions with AMP Install
- Summary
- Installing Alfresco
- 3. Getting Started with Alfresco
- Introduction to Alfresco Explorer
- Getting started with content creation
- My Alfresco dashboards
- Start with basic configuration
- Extend Alfresco configuration
- Install the enterprise license file
- Change the default administrator password
- Configure the content store
- Configure the relational database
- Configure the email service and email server
- Configure the log files
- Configure the Alfresco virtual file system
- Configure the default logos
- Customize the look and feel using CSS
- Configure multilanguage support
- Creating a blue print for your application
- Summary
- 4. Implementing Membership and Security
- 5. Implementing Document Management
- Managing spaces
- Managing content
- Library services
- Categorizing content
- Managing multilingual content
- Using network drives to manage content
- Microsoft Office 2003 add-ins
- Recovering deleted content
- The Data Dictionary and space templates
- Discussions on spaces and documents
- RSS syndication
- Migrating existing content into Alfresco
- Summary
- 6. Implementing Business Rules
- 7. Extending the Alfresco Content Model
- Custom configuration
- Custom aspect
- Constraints
- Advanced property sheet configuration
- Custom content type
- When do you need a custom content type
- Steps to add a custom content type
- Define the custom content type
- Extend the content model with the custom content type
- Configure the web client for the custom content type
- Add custom content type
- Create a Press Release as HTML content
- Create business rules targeting the custom content type
- Custom associations
- Dynamic models
- Summary
- 8. Implementing Workflow
- Introduction to the Alfresco workflow process
- Simple Workflow
- Advanced workflows
- Workflow user interactions
- Out of the box features
- Creating custom advanced workflows
- Track the status of this workflow through a customized dashlet
- Out of the box features of the workflow task list's dashboards
- Integration with rules
- Summary
- 9. Integrating External Applications with Alfresco
- The Alfresco content platform
- Web Scripts
- Various application integration examples
- Integrating with Liferay
- Integrating with Drupal
- Integrating with Joomla!
- Integrating with Adobe Flex
- Email integration: MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, Novell, and Thunderbird
- Integrating with iPhone
- Integrating with iGoogle
- Integrating with FFMPEG video transcoder
- Integrating with ViewOnePro image viewer
- Integrating with the Facebook social network application
- CMIS
- Summary
- 10. Advanced Collaboration Using Alfresco Share
- Alfresco Share
- My Dashboard
- My Profile
- Sites
- People
- Using your personal dashboard
- Using a site
- Customize a site
- Customizing a site's dashboard
- Editing the site details
- Configuring the site dashboard RSS feed
- Configuring the Wiki site dashlet
- Subscribing to an RSS feed
- Tagging site content
- Selecting a page
- The Wiki page
- The Document Library page
- Accessing the Document Library page
- Browsing the library
- Creating a folder structure
- Adding items to the library
- Working with individual library items
- Viewing an item
- Add a comment to a library item
- Editing a library item comment
- Deleting a library item comment
- Editing an item
- Downloading an item
- Upload updated content
- Deleting an item
- Editing item details
- Copying an item
- Moving an item
- Assigning workflow to an item
- Managing permissions for an item
- Working with multiple library items
- The Calendar page
- The Blog page
- The Discussions page
- Managing site users
- Benefits of using Alfresco Share
- SharePoint protocol support with Alfresco Enterprise 3.0
- Alfresco Share
- 11. Customizing the User Interface
- Configuring Alfresco Explorer
- Configuring views
- User configurable dashboards
- Using a FreeMarker dashlet from the repository
- Customizing Alfresco Share
- Presentation templates
- Configure custom webscripts
- Configure custom dashlets
- Configure custom components in Alfresco Share
- Rich user interface using Flex
- Customizing JSP Client
- Various user interface options
- Summary
- Configuring Alfresco Explorer
- 12. Search
- 13. Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing
- 14. Administering and Maintaining the System
- Index
In order to share the information in a space with external systems such as RSS feeds, you need to enable RSS Feed for that space.
Go to the details page of the News space, and click on the Enable RSS Syndication icon, as shown in the following screenshot:
A new window is displayed, enabling you to select the RSS template that is to be applied to the space as an RSS feed. The RSS templates are custom scripts that determine the content to be shown as feeds. Alfresco comes with a built-in standard RSS template, called RSS_2.0_recent_docs.ftl, which renders a valid RSS2.0 XML document, showing the documents in the current space that have been created or modified in the last seven days. Choose the default RSS template from the drop-down menu, and then click on the OK button.
In order for anonymous users to be able to view the news feeds, they must have read permission on the News space. This means that the Guest (anonymous) user must have the Consumer role (READ access) for this space, in order for the RSS feed to be publicly viewable.
This can be achieved by using the Manage Space Users dialog, and inviting the Guest user into the News space.
Let us test the RSS syndication features on the News space. Once RSS feeds are enabled on a space, the RSS Feed Link icon is visible, as shown in the following screenshot:
By clicking on the RSS Feed Link, you can view the RSS feeds of the News space in the web browser. You can view the RSS feeds of the News space in any RSS feeds enabled web browser or RSS aggregator.
Version 7.0 of Microsoft Explorer has a built-in RSS feeds viewer. You can receive content automatically by subscribing to a web feed and specifying the interval, at which Internet Explorer should check the web site for updates. To view your feeds, click on the Favorites Center button, and then click on the Feeds link. This allows you to subscribe to feeds from Internet Explorer, and read them in other programs, such as email clients.
The news information that is displayed as an RSS feed is controlled by the RSS template. RSS templates are custom scripts written in the FreeMarker template language. All of the RSS templates in Alfresco are located in the Company Home > Data Dictionary > RSS Templates space.
You can either customize an existing template by editing it, or can add a new RSS template by clicking on the Add Content link that is provided, as shown in the preceding screenshot.
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