The file-storage package has been updated with the ability to create RSS feeds for folders. This provides an alternate means of notification by which users can subscribe their news readers to the feed for a folder. Combined with RSS enclosures and WebDAV, we can build pretty interesting platforms for multimedia content delivery.
The service is turned off and hidden by default. To turn it on, set the new ExposeRssP parameter to 1 for the package instance. Then a "Configure RSS" button will appear in folder view for users with admin privilege. A couple of new screens enable creation and editing of RSS feeds for the folder. Enclosures may be optionally included by setting the "enclosure match patterns" variable, which functions are a mask for determining which files should get an enclosure element in the feed. Finally, for folders with feeds configured, links to the feed will be exposed on the folder page. Be sure to update packages/acs-subsite/www/resources/xml.gif to get the ubiquitous graphic symbol for feeds, the white-on-orange xml button.
These changes are committed to the oacs-5-1 branch. If you're working from CVS, be sure to upgrade in APM as this requires a data model upgrade. Upgrades and vanilla installation have been tested against both Postgres and Oracle, so, praise Murphy, this should work. The openacs-5-1-compat tag for file-storage has been bumped up to include these changes.
