Creating RSS Feeds
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An RSS Feed is an XML file that is automatically generated by Morfik to notify your website visitors of changes that are frequently made to the content of your website. This would remove the need for your visitors to constantly check your website for new content. RSS feeds are usually used for content such as news headlines, forum posts and blog entries.
How do my website visitors read my RSS Feeds?
Your website visitors would read your RSS feeds by subscribing to your feeds through a special category of software that re referred to as "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator" which are readily available as a web -based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based applications. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's URI into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.
How do I create RSS Feeds?
Morfik offers an easy way to create RSS Feeds from information returned from a database Query. Since this feature is dependent on server side framework code it is not available in Morfik Browser Application projects.
Selecting the RSS option from the Project tab of the Ribbon, you are taken to the RSS dialog dialog which can be seen in Figure 2.
You can create a new RSS Feed by clicking on the "New" button which will bring up another dialog for specifying the sources for the information which will be used to create the feed. Figure 3 shows the dialog for entering Feed information.
The general page of the RSS Feed editing dialog allows you to specify information such as name and title of the feed as well as a copyright message and to choose the format which will be used for the feed. The supported formats are: RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0.
From the Data Source page of the RSS Feed editing dialog you can specify where the Feed will draw its information from. This is done by selecting a specific query and then mapping the fields in the query to the required information fields in the Feed.
As an exercise, you might want to consider adding an RSS Feed to the application detailed in the topic "A Blog Application".
