Web Feed (deprecated)
The Web Feed widget displays a web or news feed from an RSS source.
In the Web Feed widget,
you can read the headlines from a website or news feed. If there is
a headline that interests you, click it to open a browser that contains
the full article. You can explicitly personalize an instance of the Web Feed widget
by changing the following settings:
- The number of feed items to display in the widget.
- How often the feed refreshes.
- What information each item in the feed displays in its title.
If you are the page owner or an editor, you can configure the Web Feed widget.
You can configure the following settings for the Web Feed widget.
- Feed URL
- Feed title
- The number of feed items to display in the widget
- Whether the widget broadcasts clicked feed items as an event. For example, if you enable this setting, you can wire this widget to the Web Site widget so that the Web Site widget updates to display the feed item you selected.
- Whether to open the item you select in the same browser or to open the item in a pop-up window
- Whether to include additional text as details for each feed item
- Style to set the colors used in the widget
- Advanced settings to set the refresh rate and what information each item in the feed displays in its title
You can send the content of the Web Feed widget
as an attachment to a task for another user. Use the following procedure
to do this.
- Select the widget menu icon and then click Send Widget. The Send Widget window displays.
- Specify the name of the person you want to send the widget to.
- Specify a priority setting and a due date.
- Click Submit. A task is created and the content of the widget is sent as an attachment for the task.
If you can edit the page, you can wire the Web Feed widget to other widgets so that it receives and broadcasts events. Many widgets create wires automatically when they are added to a page. You can also create wires manually. Manually wiring a widget is a task that requires understanding of how to wire an event broadcast by one widget to an event received by another widget. You might need to create a script to transform the payload content of the broadcast event into a format understood by the receiving event.