Managing RSS Feeds and Favorites in Plone

Managing RSS Feeds and Favorites in Plone
Don Fick, 1 December 2008



Pervasive RSS feed support
http://plone.org/products/plone/features/3.0/existing-features/pervasive-rss-feed-support/?searchterm=rss

Plone takes a novel approach to syndication of content:

    * Any Collection has its own RSS feed
    * Any search result can be subscribed to as an always-updated RSS feed:
 
Example of a search result with an RSS feed

This means that you can create specialized RSS feeds on-the-fly — and subscribe to updates on the content that interests you. It also makes it easy to syndicate specialized content feeds to other sites.


How do I enable the syndication tab in Plone 3.0?
http://plone.org/documentation/faq/how-do-i-enable-the-syndication-tab-in-plone-3-0/view?searchterm=rss

By default, outgoing syndication is enabled in Plone 3.0. However, you must explicitly configure Plone to display the syndication tab.

In the ZMI, go to portal_actions / object / syndication and then tick the Visible checkbox and click on the Save Changes button.

Now when you're on a folder in Plone, the syndication tab will show up as you expect.

Navigate the ZMI to the CMF Action at  /Plone/portal_actions/object/syndication
Set this object to “Visible”.  By Default, the user’s role must have the “manage properties” permission to see the tab.

Now RSS Feeds can be enabled on any folder with a defined update frequency.

This may not be as generally useful as creating collections.  How do you put a link to a defined RSS feed for a group.  RSS can only be for public access content because RSS doesn’t have authentication data in it.

Syndication
http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/snow-sprint3/syndication/?searchterm=rss
by Nate Aune — last modified January 23, 2006 - 22:15

As we move into Web 2.0 defined by interoperability, it is becoming ever more important that Plone provide tools to interact with other systems. The most basic way to do this is by publishing content in Plone as RSS feeds, and subscribing to external RSS feeds and displaying them on the Plone site.


Favorites
Add to Favorites activated with
CMF Action at  /Plone/portal_actions/document_actions/addtofavorites

View My Favorites activated with
CMF Action at  /Plone/portal_actions/user/favorites


Modify User Bar with
CMF Action Category   CMF Action Category at  /Plone/portal_actions/user