Create the channel sitenews.
Create the file format newsitem and activate its
option Mark as new on the live server
(canCreateNewsItems).
Create the file news1 anywhere in the folder
hierarchy. Use newsitem as the format of the file.
Add code like this to the layout of the starting page:
<ul> <npsobj newslist="all" length="10"> <li> <npsobj insertvalue="anchor" name="self"> <npsobj insertvalue="var" name="title" /> </npsobj> </li> </npsobj> </ul>
Create the channel politics.
Create the file format newsitem and enable its
option Mark as news on the live server
(canCreateNewsItems).
Define a field description. Create the file format
feed and add the description field to it. Do
not activate canCreateNewsItems for feed.
Create the folder rssfeeds.
In the folder create a base layout which outputs an RSS feed (see below).
In the same folder create the file politicsfeed
using the feed format and set its description
to "Company policy news". Assign to it the politics
channel.
Set the main content of the base layout to the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.92//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.92.dtd"> <rss version="0.92"> <channel> <description> <npsobj insertvalue="var" name="description" /> </description> <language>de</language> <title><npsobj insertvalue="var" name="title" /></title> <link>http://www.mysite.com/</link> <copyright>(c) JustRelate Group GmbH</copyright> <generator>CMS Fiona 6.7.0</generator> <ttl>60</ttl> <npsobj newslist="selected" name="channels" length="20"> <item> <title><npsobj insertvalue="var" name="title"/></title> <link>http://www.mysite.de<npsobj insertvalue="var" name="visiblePath" /></link> <description> <npsobj insertvalue="var" name="description"/> </description> </item> </npsobj> </channel> </rss>
To output the RSS feed in a different version (for example 2.0) you can modify the layout file as desired.
To generate another feed for sports news using the layout file above:
Create a channel named sports.
In the rssfeeds folder create the file
politicsfeed using the feed format and set the
file’s description field to "Latest sports news". As
channels select sports.
Now create files based on the newsitem format and
set their channels field to sports. The files
will be added to the Sports news feed.
Create a folder named newsletters.
Write a base layout that generates the contents of the newsletter by reading fields from the corresponding files, for example.
Create a file format named newsletter.
In the newsletters folder create
the file politics based on the file format
newsletters.
Into the main content of the
politics file enter the e-mail addresses.
Only one address per line.
Write a
wizard
that sends the exportBlob field of
politics to each e-mail address in the
main content of politics.