Creating an RSS Feed
This page provides instructions for how to create an RSS and how to set up this facility in a webpage on your site.
You will need to create an XML type file. The XML file is the source file that the RSS readers and browsers check for updated content. This can be done in SharePoint Designer by following these instructions
- Follow the instructions for Opening your site.
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In
SharePoint Designer select the [File] menu and then select [New Page]. - In the [New] window, select the [Page] tab and ensure the [General] option is selected from the left most list. Select the [XML] file type from the list and press the [OK] button. See the following screen image.
- Place your insert point at the end of the first line and Insert the following code:
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>UniSA News Releases (replace this with the title of your website)</title>
<link>http://www.unisa.edu.au/news (replace this with the link to your website
default home page)</link>
<description>News releases from the UniSA (provide a description of your
website)</description>
<language>en-au</language>
<item>
<title>Title of the news release</title>
<link>URL of the news release</link>
<description>First paragraph or description of news release.</description>
<pubDate>01 Jan 2008</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Title of the news release</title>
<link>URL of the news release</link>
<description>First paragraph or description of news release.</description>
<pubDate>01 Jan 2008</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
- The first section of code between the <channel> tag and the first <item> tag contains information giving an overview of the RSS feed. You need to provide a link to your website and a description of the site.
- Save this xml file in an appropriate folder. This could be a folder specially created called 'rss' or similar, or you could just save it to the folder where the information that will be regularly updated is located.
- Provide a link to your RSS feed
- Periodically update your RSS feed with new link information.
Updating the content
The code within the