Confluence can both publish and display RSS feeds. By publishing RSS feeds, Confluence helps you stay automatically informed of changes and updates going on within Confluence. By displaying RSS feeds, you can insert outside RSS feeds into Confluence to provide your Confluence users with important information.
There are two ways that Confluence uses RSS. Firstly, it can display RSS feeds from other sites, allowing you to follow the news from those sites inside Confluence. Secondly, Confluence publishes RSS feeds of recently updated content, allowing you to be notified of those changes through your own RSS reader.
Displaying and Reading RSS From Other Sites
If another site publishes an RSS feed, you can include its contents in a Confluence page by including the RSS Feed in the page. Confluence will check the feed for updates at most every hour.
See below for an example using the RSS feeds published by the BBC:
BBC News | World | UK Edition
(Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.) |
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UN to urge revamp of Afghan aid
The UN's envoy to Afghanistan is to set out a new plan on aid spending amid fears that millions have been wasted. |
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G8 leaders face series of crises
Rising food and oil prices, global warming and Zimbabwe are on the agenda as G8 leaders gather for a summit in Japan. |
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Ancient Peruvian tomb unearthed
Archaeologists unearth an ancient tomb in northern Peru that could throw light on the pre-Columbian Moche Indian culture. |
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S Korea sets fuel-saving measures
South Korea restricts the use of government cars and air conditioning in a bid to tackle rising fuel costs. |
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'Fake' priest exposed at Vatican
A man posing as a priest is caught trying to hear confessions in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, a judge says. |
Subscribing to Confluence Updates via RSS
Confluence also produces RSS that you can subscribe to (using an RSS Newsreader) in order to receive notifications of new or updated content on the Confleunce site. Confluence supports both anonymous and authenticated feeds. Each space has many built in RSS feeds to select from, and you can custom create you own feed via the RSS Feed Builder.
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1) Subscribe to Pre-Built RSS Feeds
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2) Create custom feeds with the RSS Feed Builder  |
