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The RSS Feed content type contains a single content template, RSS Inbound, which is used to display an RSS or Atom feed on a page.

The RSS Inbound content template supports the following feed versions:

  • RSS 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0
  • Atom 1.0

Before you can display a feed, the URL of the site that hosts the feed must be added as a remote site in Salesforce and OrchestraCMS. The complete URL for an RSS feed will always end in either .xml or .rss, and the complete URL for an Atom feed will always end in either .xml or .atom.  

Add an RSS or Atom feed as a remote site in your Salesforce organization and in OrchestraCMS

  1. In Salesforce Setup, under Administration Setup, expand Security Controls, and then click Remote Site Settings.
  2. On the All Remote Sites page, click New Remote Site.
  3. On the Remote Site Edit page, in the Remote Site Name field, enter a descriptive name for the RSS feed.
  4. In the Remote Site URL field, enter the URL of the site that contains the RSS feed; you can enter the entire URL of the RSS feed and Salesforce will truncate it for you.
  5. Click Save.
  1. In OrchestraCMS Setup, Site, Remote Sites, add the same information. You can call the Remote Site anything you wish, but the Remote Site URL must be the same as the one you have entered in Salesforce.

The RSS Inbound content template can render the following components:

  • Feed title (optional)
  • Entry titles (required; titles link to the URL of the entry)
  • Entry posted dates (optional)
  • Entry descriptions (optional)
  • Pagination links (optional)

The content editor lets you specify the components to include when the feed is rendered on a page.

Use the RSS Inbound content template

  1. In the content editor, under Feed Settings, do the following:
    • In the RSS Feed URL box, enter the complete URL from the RSS or Atom feed. The complete URL for an RSS feed will always end in either .xml or .rss, and the complete URL for an Atom feed will always end in either .xml or .atom.  
    • Optionally, in the Atom Category Term box, enter a category term to display only the feed items that are associated with that category (only one category term can be entered).
  2.  Under Display Settings, do the following:
    • Optionally, in the RSS Feed Title box, enter a title to display with the feed.
    • Optionally, in the Characters in Description box, enter the number of characters you want to display for the description portion of each item in the RSS or Atom feed; zero means no description will be displayed, and leave the field blank to display the entire description of each item.
    • Optionally, click to select the Show posted Date check box, which will display the posted date of each feed item if one is provided.
    • Optionally, in the Number of (feed) Items to Display per Page box, enter the number of feed items that you want to display on a single page; if this field is left blank, all items in the feed will display on a single page.
    • Optionally, click to select the Show ‘Previous/Next’ links check box if you have specified the number of feed items to display on a single page; this option includes pagination links for users to navigate to older items in the feed.
  3. In the Actions panel, click Save.