Chapter 8. Setting up an RSS Server

Table of Contents

Description
Complexity
Technologies
Time required
Ingredients
Activity Plan
Launching the searchbox Control Panel
Choosing a Collection and a Watch
Adding the RSS feed to the aggregator

Description

A ready to use RSS server to feed filtered contents coming from different document sources.

Complexity

1 2 3 4 5

It requires a fully functional searchbox installation and setting some watches.

Technologies

???

Time required

10 minutes

Ingredients

Activity Plan

Launching the searchbox Control Panel

Simply double-click the Control Panel icon and the Source View is shown as in the following picture (here we are assuming that you are using the tutorial datadir but the procedure would be the same for any other source/archive/collection combination).

Choosing a Collection and a Watch

Click on the Watches tab and have the Watch View where active watches are shown. Let's select the Bush watch and the Info tab as shown in the following picture.

Adding the RSS feed to the aggregator

Look at Integrate watch panel and click on Copy to clipboard button.

Launch Thunderbird™ program and click on New Account Setup, then choose RSS News & Blogs option and press Next >

Set a name for this new RSS account and press Next >

Ok, your new RSS account is done.

Clicking on the Manage subscription option with My searchbox RSS feeds label selected you can add to the new account your first RSS feed.

And here it is the updated list

and the resulting RSS output