Club Management Services

RSS is the common acronym for new feed syndication. The exact acronym remain in debate, but in the end, RSS is an XML feed of recent headlines from a given publisher. The Aggregator allows you, the web site owner, to consume these RSS feeds and display the headlines of that site on your web site. Such as the headlines from your parent organization, if they publish such RSS feeds.

RSS Feed Aggregator is available in all packages.

To begin using the RSS Feed Aggregator you must do three things:

• Enable the module
• Set up the RSS feeds to be aggregated
• Enable the menu item

Enable the module

Go to "Administer > Site building > Modules" and check the checkbox for the "Aggregator" module. This module has no other dependencies, so no other modules need to be enabled in order for it to work.

Scroll to the bottom of the modules page and click the "Save Configuration" button to submit the form and enable the module.

Set up the RSS feeds to be aggregated

Go to "Administer > Content management > Feed aggregator" to get to the configuration tool. From here you can click on the "settings" button to get to the global settings. These settings will allow you to dictate the tags that are allowed from feeds, how long to keep the feed history and more.

After those global settings are set (of which often the default is just fine) you can set up feeds and assign categories to organize the feeds. Adding a feed just consists of entering the URL of the feed, giving it a title and setting how often you want it to update. I'd personally suggest not more than once an hour, since that is how often the job will run on our end anyway, so setting it to more often would be moot.

Enable the menu item

Go to "Administer > Site building > Menus > Navigation" and, after enabling the Aggregator module, you will see a Aggregator menu item. Enable it by checking the checkbox and dragging it wherever in the hierarchy you wish it to be placed. Then submit the menu configuration.