Create feeds

The title is publicly visible and will be the title for the whole feed in the RSS reader.

The description is not publically visible.

When a feed is active, new items that are created, such as events or news, are published in the feed.
When you make a feed inactive, the newly published items do not become part of the feed.

Expand Advanced options section.
Select one of the following publishing types:

• Pass trough
  This type of publishing gets the content from the inbound pipe and publishes it directly to the outbound pipe.
• Persistent
  This type of publishing gets the content from the inbound pipe, then persists it in the database. From the database, content is send to one or more outbound pipes.

• You can delete the automatically selected content or other selected content by clicking  (Remove).
• You can change the settings of the selected content by clicking Change… button.
• You can add more content by clicking Add another content type… button.
  The Select content source window appears. Select one of the following radio buttons:

1. In Content type dropdown box, select the type of content include in the feed.
   If you have selected Blogs, in Which blog posts to display? radio button group, select one of the following:
   • From all blogs
     All published posts are included in the feed.
   • From selected blogs only…
     Click Select a blog. From the list that appears, select the blog whose posts you want to include in the feed and click Done selecting.
2. Select the page where the content is published, by clicking Select a page button.
3. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
   In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map existing fields of the content type you have selected.

   If you have created a new data field in the previous section, using the Change Data structure… button, you can map a field from the content type to that newly created field. The content type fields, which can be mapped, can be both predefined and custom fields. For more information, see Overview: Custom fields.

   When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

   NOTE: If you are using a dynamic module, the mappings are not predefined and you must explicitly set them.

4. Click Done.

NOTE: Only published content is included in the feed.

1. Enter the URL of the external RSS or Atom feed.
2. Choose how many items to include by selecting one of the following radio buttons:
   • Include the newest <number> items
     In the input field, enter how many of the external RSS or Atom items you want to display.
   • Include all published items
     The feed displays all items from the external RSS or Atom feed.
3. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
   In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map existing fields of the RSS or Atom feed you have selected.

   If you have created a new data field in the previous section, using the Change Data structure… button, you can map a field from the RSS or Atom feed to that newly created field

   When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

4. Click Done.

1. Enter the name of the POP3 server.
2. Enter the port used by the server.
3. Select if you want Sitefinity CMS to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt the connection.
4. Enter the user name of the account that you use to connect to the mail server.
5. Enter the password of the account that you use to connect to the mail server.
6. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
   In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map existing fields of the mail you have selected.

   If you have created a new data field in the previous section, using the Change Data structure… button, you can map a field from the mail to that newly created field.

   When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

7. Click Done.

NOTE: Any attachments are disregarded and are not published.

IMPORTANT: Every mail that is successfully retrieved is deleted from the POP3 server.

IMPORTANT: With Twitter feed, you must use Persistent publishing point. For more information, see above.

1. In Which Twitter application to use? select an application via which you want to publish your tweets.
   The list contains all Twitter applications which you have registered in Twitter and in Sitefinity.

   For more information, see Administration: Configure Twitter in Sitefinity.

   When you select an application, in Select Twitter user for publishing, a list of all Twitter users registered for this application appear.

2. Select the Twitter user from whose account the tweets will be published.
   For example, you can register an application MyNews, but you can associate two accounts with that application – sports and weather. Some people may follow only thesports other may follow only the weather.

   For more information about associating Twitter users accounts with an application, see Administration: Configure Twitter in Sitefinity.

3. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
   In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the Twitter feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map fields of the feed you are creating.

   If you have created a new data field in the previous section, using the Change Data structure… button, you can map this newly created field to one of the Twitter fields.

   When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

4. In the dropdown box, select the Twitter feed update intervals.

5. If you want, you can narrow the tweets displayed in the feed by entering a search pattern.
   For more information, see Searching Twitter.

6. Enter the number of items that you want to display in the feed.

7. Click Done.

To display the created Twitter feed on your pages, you can use the Twitter Feed widget.

1. Select which forum posts to publish by choosing one of the following:
   
   • From all forums
     All forum posts are published.
   • From selected forums
     Select posts from which forum to publish, by clicking Select forums button, selecting one or more forums, and clicking Done.
   • From selected threads
     Select posts from which threads to publish, by clicking Select thread button, selecting one or more threads, and clicking Done.
2. Filter which posts are displayed according to their publication date.
   To do this expand Narrow selection and perform the following:
   1. Select Selection of posts: radio button.
   2. Select by Dates… and click Select button.
   3. Choose one of the predefined intervals or enter a custom time interval using the From and To fields.
   4. Click Done.
3. Select the page where the content is published, by clicking Select a page button.
4. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
   In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map existing fields of the forum that you have selected.
   

   If you have created a new data field in the previous section, using the Change Data structure… button, you can map a field from the mail to that newly created field.

   When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

• You can delete the automatically generated RSS feed or other publishing method by clicking  (Remove).
• You can change the settings of the publishing method by clicking Settings… button.
• You can add another method of export by clicking Add more… button. The Select content export method window appears. Select one of the following radio buttons:

1. In Import data as dropdown box, select whether to publish the selected content as Blogs, News, or Events.
2. If you select Automatically publish imported data, the items will be imported in status Published, otherwise, the will be imported as Draft.
3. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
   In the window that appears, you have a list of the existing data fields of the Sitefinity CMS content types. To these fields, you can map fields of the feed you are creating.

   If you have created a new data field in the previous section, using the Change Data structure… button, you can map this newly created field to a field of the content type. The content type fields, which can be mapped, can be both predefined and custom fields. For more information, see Overview: Custom fields.

   When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

4. Click Done.

1. In RSS or Atom to generate? radio button group, select the format for the feed.
2. In URL name, enter a URL of the feed.
3. Choose how many items to include in the feed by selecting one of the following radio buttons:
   • Include the newest <number> items
     In the input field, enter how many of the published items you want to display.
   • Include all published items
     The feed displays all items that are published.
4. Choose how to display the items in the feeds by selecting one of the following:
   • Title and content.
   • Title and first <number> characters.
   • Title only.
5. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
   In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map fields of the RSS or Atom feed you.

   If you have created a new data field in the previous section, using the Change Data structure… button, you can map a field from the RSS or Atom feed to that newly created field.

   When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

6. Click Done.

1. In Which Twitter application to use? select an application via which you want to publish your tweets.
   The list contains all Twitter applications which you have registered in Twitter and in Sitefinity.

   For more information, see Administration: Configure Twitter in Sitefinity.

   When you select an application, in Select Twitter user for publishing, a list of all Twitter users registered for this application appear.

2. Select the Twitter user from whose account the tweets will be published.
   For example, you can register an application MyNews, but you can associate two accounts with that application – sports and weather. Some people may follow only the sports other may follow only the weather.

   For more information about associating Twitter users accounts with an application, see Administration: Configure Twitter in Sitefinity.

3. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
   In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the Twitter feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map fields of the feed you are creating.

   If you have created a new data field in the previous section, using the Change Data structure… button, you can map this newly created field to one of the Twitter fields.

   When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

4. Click Done.