IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet for WebSphere Portal

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
• Set 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
• Import multiple feeds by specifying an appropriate OPML URL.

• 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

    • Add feeds to the portlet

    • Enabling or displaying the feeds in the view mode of the portlet

    • Configuring cache settings

  • Apply locks on a user's ability to customize feed presentation related options, such as
    • Choose a presentation style for the feeds
    • Display or hide the toolbar. A toolbar enables us to perform all the operations related to feeds and feed categories from within the view mode.
    • Display or hide 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 hide the author of feed items
    • Display or hide the Published date of feed items

We can perform all the listed tasks from within the IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet. Steps for performing the previous tasks are documented in the WebSphere Portal help.

The following ConfigEngine tasks need to be performed by an Administrator from WebSphere Portal, IBM WebSphere Application Server, 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.

• Additional information for using IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet
• Configure proxy settings
• Customize the portlet title
• Enable display of SSL-secured feeds
• Configure cookies and active content filtering
• Client side aggregation (CSA) rendering in IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet

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