Syndication Settings

Purpose:

The Syndicate Component controls the settings related to the Syndication of your site's contents via RSS and related protocols (e.g., Atom). To display the syndication links to your site visitors you must publush the Syndicate Module.

Details

- Cache: Choose the 'Yes' radio button to create and display a new Newsfeed dependant on the value set in the Cache Time field. Choose the 'No' radio button to display a new Newsfeed each time an item is added to the FrontPage Component and each time the Newsfeed is accessed by another server. Warning: Setting Cache to 'No' will cause your Newsfeed to be checked every time someone visits any site where your Newsfeed is syndicated. This can potentially cause excessive bandwidth usage as well as extreme draw on your server resources.
- Cache Time: This is the number of seconds before your site's database is checked for updates. The default in Mambo is 3600 seconds, or 60 minutes. After this time has elapsed, the Newsfeed will refresh itself from your database thus displaying any new items you have published through the FrontPage Component to your Newsfeed.
- #Items: Enter the number of items you would like to syndicate and display in your Newsfeed.
- Title: Enter the title you wish to display above your articles within your syndicated Newsfeed when it is displayed on those sites and pages which syndicate your Newsfeed. The title will appear as a link to your site.
- Description: Enter a brief statement to describe your Newsfeed. If none is entered, it will default to "Mambo site syndication".
- Image: Select an image from the drop-down menu to be included in your Newsfeed. If you do not have an image, you can upload one via the Media Manager.
- Image Alt: Enter the text for the “alt" tag to compliment the image you've selected for inclusion in the Newsfeed via the Image drop-down menu.
- Limit Text: Choose the 'Yes' radio button if you wish to limit the Text Length field. Choose the 'No' radio button to force the value in the Text Length field to be ignored, thus displaying the entire contents of each item.
- Text Length: Enter the number of words to display per Newsfeed item. NOTE: The Limit Text radio button must be set to 'YES' to activate this function.
- Order: Set the order that items as listed in the FrontPage Manager will be displayed.
  - 'Default': Arranges items according to the order set in the FrontPage Manager.
  - 'FrontPage Ordering': Same as above.
  - 'Oldest first': Arranges items in chronological order, with the oldest items first.
  - 'Most recent first': Arranges items in chronological order, with the newest items first.
  - 'Title Alphabetical': Arranges items by title in alphabetical order.
  - 'Title Reverse-Alphabetical': Arranges items in reverse-alphabetical order.
  - 'Author Alphabetical': Arranges items by author in alphabetical order.
  - 'Author Reverse-Alphabetical': Arranges items by author in reverse alphabetical order.
  - 'Most Hits': Arranges items according to the number of hits, with the items with the most hits first.
  - 'Least Hits': Arranges items according to the number of hits, with the items with the least hits first.
- Live Bookmarks: Activate support for Firefox Live Bookmark functionality.
- Bookmark File: Special file name. If none is entered, will use the default file.

Usage: | n/a
Default State: | n/a
Parameters: | n/a

Toolbar Icons:

- Save: Saves your changes.
- Cancel: Cancels and exits without saving your changes.