Working with feed subscriptions

IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5: User assistance for administrators

Adding a feed subscription
Subscribing to a web feed enables you to view the contents of the feed.

Displaying or enabling the feeds
After you have added feeds to IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet, you need to enable these feeds so that their articles are displayed in the view mode.

Reordering a feed subscription within a category
Within a feed category, you can shuffle the feeds.

Moving a feed subscription from one category to another
You can move a feed subscription from one feed category to another.

Deleting a feed subscription
Delete a feed subscription when you no longer require it.

Renaming a feed subscription
You can give a more intuitive name to your feed subscription.

Viewing the feed subscription settings
You can view information related to the feed, such as the feed description, feed URL, and web address of the feed page.

Setting Private and Shared Credentials
You can set either private or shared credentials for accessing password-protected feeds. Shared credentials enable all the users of IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet to view the feed without having to enter any credentials. Private credentials enable an individual user to view content from password protected feeds by configuring user ID and password.

Using the toolbar
By enabling the toolbar, you can perform all the operations related to feeds and feed categories without leaving the view mode. Thus, you don't need to go to the Personalize, Edit Shared Settings, or the Configure mode to add, select, rename, reorder, re-categorize, and delete the feeds.

Using the channel bar
The channel bar displays the name of the feed category and the name of the feed subscription separated by a forward slash (/).