How to create a RSS feed component?

I'm not looking at consuming a RSS feed on my site, I'm looking at creating a RSS feed component of all the latest news from my site, how can I do this in LiveSite? Site users should be able to consume this.

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Jcse

Hi

which LS version you are using.

In LS 3.0.2 LiveSite has provided installed components for rss under the name
1.Selected RSS Feed Viewer
2.RSS Feed Viewer

They can be helpfull for your requirement.

Samy

Thanks I'm aware of it, I already tried that it's only for consuming a RSS feed, Eg. I can get the latest news feed from CNN website into the out of the box RSS component. How to create RSS feed of content in LiveSite for site users to consume? Appreciate your help.

tec_iwov

you can by setting to correct layout type of the page. this can be done when creating the page of from within the page setting form.

AlexC

Create a component which output's valid XML fragment and set the component's skin type to RSS or ATOM (depending on feed type)
Create a new page
Go to page settings and select page type to be RSS or ATOM (must match colmponent)
Add component to the page (and make sure the skin type matches the page type).

For more take a look at the ABC news component which has both RSS and ATOM skins as an example.

Samy

Thanks for the info.

When I set the page type /component skin setting to RSS, can I use this page URL for normal web publishing & RSS feeds or is it only for RSS feeds?

AlexC

I am not sure I understand "web publishing" part of your question. It creates an RSS feed that others can subscribe to for a given URL, is that what you mean?

Samy

Yes you are right, It should create a RSS feed that others can subscribe to for a given URL.