CMFSin

Category: Services, Weblogs — Other products by this author

Current release: CMFSin 0.7

Released Sep 19, 2007 — tested with Plone 2.5, Plone 2.1

Stable release for Plone 2.5, 2.1.

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0.7 tarball

Project Description

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This is a simple syndication client for Plone. It uses rssparser and shares many things in common with CMFNewsFeed but has a different model for handling channels. It is designed to map n channels or feeds to sets of composite virtual channels which can then be called in in a timely fashion. Most of the remaining work has to happen in UI land.

Step-by-step instructions

1. Install using the Add/Remove Products feature of Plone Setup.
2. In the ZMI, go to the new sin_tool object of your CMF/Plone site. Add RSS or RDF channels to the "channels" section:

   syntax: =

   ex: freshmeat=http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-releases-software.rdf

3. Add syndication mappings to the "map" section.

   syntax: = [,]*

   ex: geek=freshmeat,slashdot

4. Click "Set Config".
5. Finally, go to the Properties tab of your CMF/Plone site then add the mappings you defined to your left_slots or right_slots.

   syntax: here/sin_tool/macros/

   ex: here/sin_tool/macros/geeknews

Credits:

• Ben
• Thanks to Mark Pilgrim for the rssparser that I use (a hacked up version of)
• Andy McKay, Richard Amerman and Jon Lim and Sprint Victoria for 0.6
• Sidnei da Silva (dreamcatcher) for house cleaning and beer drinking.