Working with feeds

Use feeds to stay up-to-date with information relevant to your community.

About this task

Feeds pull data from one website into another. A feed is a regularly updated summary of web content, along with links to full versions of that content. When you subscribe to a feed for a website by using a feed reader, you receive a summary of new content from that website.

Communities can subscribe to feeds that are devoted to subjects of interest to the community. This subscription enables the community to get useful information delivered to it in one place from multiple sites without searching the web.

The Feeds area on a community Overview page displays the five most recent feeds added to the community.

Procedure

To access, edit or delete a feed take the following steps.
Note: To edit or delete a community feed, you must be a community owner or the member who added the feed.
  1. To access updated information from a feed that is associated with your community, complete the following steps.
    1. From the community Overview page, click Feeds.
    2. Click More next to a feed that interests you.
      Note: If you try to access a feed without logging in to Connectionsfirst, you might be denied access. Either log in or click the feed name and enter your login credentials.
    3. Click a link that interests you to read more.
    4. Optional: Use the Next and Previous links to browse more feed entries.
  2. To edit the feeds associated with a community, complete the following steps.
    1. From the community that contains the feed that you want to edit, select Feeds in the navigation sidebar.
    2. Click More next to the feed name.
    3. Click Edit to open the Edit Feed form.
    4. Change the following fields to meet your requirements:
      Table 1. Edit Feed form fields
      Field name Value
      Feed Edit the web address of the feed.
      Name Rename the feed. Choose a name that clearly identifies the resource.
      Description Describe the information available from the feed. Include your own comments about why a community member might want to use the feed.
      Tags Type one or more tags. A tag is a keyword that represents the content of the feed. The tags that you define here display in the tag cloud on the overview page of the current community.
  3. To delete a feed from a community, complete the following steps.
    1. From the community's Overview page, click Feeds.
    2. Click More next to the feed that you want to delete.
    3. Click Delete > OK to confirm that you want to delete the feed.