Feeds
Feeds are electronical news. The contents of the feeds come from different kinds of sources, e.g. from stories or blogs. Also new members can be displayed and broadcasted in a feed.
What do I need a reference date for when adding a story?
If you want to refer to a certain date in your story you can define this date as a reference date. Therewith you have the possibility, to sort the storys a RSS Feed or a newsflash independently from the start date of the publication of the story.
Example:
Fair A is on October 30, 2008. I write a preview in August 1, 2008.
Training B is on July 12, 2008. I refr to it on June 30, 2008.
The moment of story publication is the start date, the date of the event is the reference date.
What ist the difference between "External Feeds" and "Newsflash Feeds"?
External Feeds are grafically not controllable. That means that the feed looks like it was provided from the external website after including it in a story. If you know CSS you can affect the layout a little.
Designing Newsflash Feeds is much easier because you can use feed templates and controll the number of feed items and the number of words. You have a ample scope of creative work.
What's a Tag Cloud?
A tag cloud contains the most popular tags, independent of the element (e.g. blogs, wiki article, documents, etc.) they belong to. The single tags of the tag cloud can be clicked and the matching results get displayed.
Why gets my external feed not displayed?
- The connection to an external sever is not given.
- Check the corresponding Newsflash-Template, if it was created correctly. Go to Website & CMS > Feeds > Newsflash Feeds. If in the area Feed-Template you find unknown, this means that a display of the feed is not possible.
- If a template was assigned correctly then check the usage of the placeholders in the template.
Why gets my internal feed not displayed?
- Check the background processes. Go to Tools & Administration > Portal Settings > Background Processes. Check the status respectively the activity of export2feed, as well as the timeframe of the export.
- Check if there is a link to the RSS Feed in the sourcecode in the HTMH-Head. Got to Tools & Administration > Design & Layout > Design Moduls. In the area Other Layout Elements you find the module htmlHead where you can check if the placeholder „$feedLinks“ is in the sourcecode, e.g.:
<html><head><title>$portalName</title>
$feddLinks
</head><body>
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