Creating RSS Feeds In EPortfolio Pages

There are occasions where one might want to insert an RSS feed into an eportfolio page directly; ePortfolio makes this easy to do with the Syndicate Directive.

Suppose for example you wanted to insert the links from a feed into a Composite Page (example Composite Page ). Here's what you can do:

• Create a Home Page

• Click the Black Button shown here

to remove the Wysiwyg editor.

• A text area will be revealed with a link to Text Entry Help

• This link will show you the format of the Syndicate directive. Check it out .

• The home page being constructed can include titles, multiple syndicate directives, or other text that you might want to include.

Here are a few home page examples:

  <syndicate http://www.uhseport.com/cgi-bin/syndicateXML.cgi?group=class11
       showPostDate=N descriptionCharsShown=300 numberLinksDisplayed=8>
 

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  <i>Here is a wide set of articles dealing with technology in education</i>

  <syndicate http://www.myeport.com/cgi-bin/syndicateXML.cgi?itemID=tucson73/collection/1 
       showPostDate=N descriptionCharsShown=0 numberLinksDisplayed=100>