Adding a new RSS news feed
This process is conducted through The Admin console of iD. You will need to ensure that you are logged into the admin before conducting this process.
- Adding a new RSS news feed is part of the adding a News category process, please see this process for help and information on adding and saving the category details
- Select the News Source as required
- If RSS Feed is selected, enter the details as required:
- Enter the RSS URL, this is the URL of the website with the RSS Feed
- The URL should be checked to ensure it is a valid RSS Feed, see Test RSS for more information
- Thumbnails cannot be added to an RSS Feed; this option is greyed out and disabled
- Select the applicable Show Summary radio button to nominate whether the summary of the News article should be displayed
- Select the applicable Show RSS / ATOM News Link radio button to nominate whether the link to RSS News should be displayed
- Select the applicable Show Archive News Link radio button to nominate whether the link to Archive News should be displayed
- If the Yes option for Show Archive News Link is selected you are able to enter the Archive News Text to be displayed (Note: if no text is entered the link will be "Archive News" by default)
- Select the applicable Show More News radio button to nominate whether the link to More News should be displayed
- If the Yes option for Show More News is selected you are able to enter the More News Text to be displayed (Note: if no text is entered the link will be "More News" by default)
- Select from the No. of News Items dropdown, this will be the number of News articles which will be displayed in the layout
- Select Active to make the category available on the intranet
- Select Default Category to make this the default category when adding the News application into the layout using Layout Manager
- Select Allow users to submit news to allow users of the intranet to submit News articles for approval by an administrator
- Select Feature Category to make all news items in this category display as feature News items. Feature News items are displayed on the site with a different look and feel than a standard News item
- Click here to return to the Adding a new category help
Click here to return to the News Help index
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