Work with IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet for WebSphere Portal
The new IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet for WebSphere Portal offers enhanced feed subscription and presentation capabilities.
Using IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet, a user can:
- Integrate, view, and manage RSS and ATOM feeds from portal pages
- Organize the feeds into new and existing feed categories
- Specify authentication options and credentials (private or shared) for password-protected feeds
- Extensively customize the presentation style for feeds
- Export the feeds of IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet to an Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) compliant xml file and import multiple feeds by specifying an appropriate OPML URL.
- Enable and configure servlet and dynamic caching for caching the portlet user interface and feed data, respectively
Using IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet, an administrator can perform all the functions that a user can. Additionally, the administrator can:
- Regulate a user's ability to customize the portlet
- Apply locks on a user's ability to perform feed subscription related functions, such as
- Adding feeds to the portlet
- Enabling or displaying the feeds in the view mode of the portlet
- Configure cache settings
- Apply locks on a user's ability to customize feed presentation related options, such as
- Choosing a presentation style for the feeds
- Display or hiding the toolbar. A toolbar enables you to perform all the operations related to feeds and feed categories from within the view mode.
- Display or hiding the channel bar. The channel bar displays the name of the feed category and the name of the feed subscription separated by a forward slash (/).
- Customize the portlet window title to be the same as the default portlet title, the title of the first selected feed, or a custom title
- Display or hiding the author of feed items
- Display or hiding the Published date of feed items
All the above tasks can be performed from within the IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet. Steps for performing the above tasks are documented in the WebSphere Portal help.
The following configuration tasks need to be performed by an Administrator from the WebSphere Portal Administration console, WebSphere Application Administrative console, or the WebSphere Portal file system:
- Configure settings for a proxied environment
- Configure a user's ability to customize the portlet window title
- Enable display of SSL-secured feeds
- Configure global cookies for feeds
- Usage notes for the IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet
View some points to remember when using IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet for WebSphere Portal.
- Configure proxy settings
IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet for WebSphere Portal is supported in a proxied environment.
- Enable customization of portlet title
With appropriate configuration settings, the portlet window title can be chosen to be the same as the default portlet title, the title of the first selected feed, or a custom title specified by the user in the portlet configuration.
- Enable display of SSL-secured feeds
When using IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet for WebSphere Portal, some feeds that use HTTP over SSL (HTTPS) may not function properly due to missing SSL certificates. You may encounter errors, such as Missing certificate, Unknown certificate, or Untrusted certificate because of missing root signer certificates or missing self-signed certificates in the WAS certificate trust store. In both the cases, add the appropriate certificates to the WAS certificate trust store in use for your WebSphere Portal Server installation.
- Configure cookies
Create a cookiesToForward configuration parameter to specify a set of cookies that should accompany an outbound portlet request for viewing the entire article available at the feed source. These cookies are applicable to all the feeds configured in the IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet. You can also specify a set of cookies specific to a feed.
- Client side aggregation (CSA) rendering in IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet
IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet can be configured to operate in the client side aggregation (CSA) rendering mode. Client side rendering ensures an improved user experience through faster response time. When you enable client side rendering in the portlet, the portal does not re-render the whole page but only the aspects of the portlet that change.
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Administer WebSphere Portal