SyndicationTool Setup

Note:
If you are installing a fresh portal, you can ignore the tool installation instructions, and go right to configuring the syndication_tool.

Installing CMF SyndicationTool

1. Update your cvs sandbox which includes the SyndicationTool and SyndicationInfo modules (as of 2001/05/18)
2. Restart your Zope instance.
3. Enter the ZMI and go to the root of your CMF installation.
4. In the root of your portal, select from the Products list the 'CMFDefault Tool' and choose SyndicationTool from the form.

Once you have the syndication_tool in the root of your portal, you're ready to enable syndication in your CMF Site.

Configuration

1. Select the syndication_tool in the root of your portal.
2. Click the Properties tab.
3. Click the 'enable syndication' button
4. Edit the default sitewide properties to your tastes.

Once syndication has been enabled on the tool, folders will be syndicateable. The process for enabling and configuring syndication on a per folder basis follows the same steps outlined above, except at present the forms are only available in the CMF.
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Test it Out

1. Create a folder called 'news'.
2. Enable Syndication on the 'news' folder.
3. Create some mock news documents in the news folder.
4. Point your browser to http://whatever.host.com/path/news/RSS
    Internet Explorer users will notice a nice XML parsed view of your syndication feed. Netscape does not have this ability, users who only have netscape may wish to use some other method to parse the XML which the DTML methods produce.