RSS on MyZone

Last updated: July 16, 2008

What is RSS?

RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content.  Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

RSS feeds are gathered and rendered by RSS viewers.  In MyZone, you can create and configure RSS Viewer web parts on your My Home tab.

These instructions work for IE 7 & Firefox on Windows and Firefox on Macs.  They do not work for Safari.

Create a RSS Viewer (for IE & Firefox)

To set up a new RSS Viewer from your My Home page:

  1. Select "Site Actions" > "Edit this page" (top left of page)
  2. Select "Add a Web Part" in the area where you'd like to add a RSS Viewer
  3. In the pop-up window under the Default section, check "RSS Viewer" > click "Add" button
  4. Click "Open the tool pane" link of the newly-added RSS Viewer
  5. Copy and paste your desired RSS feed url into the "RSS Feed URL" field
    1. To set the number of displayed entries, change number in "Feed Limit" field
    2. For a more detailed feed, check "Show feed title and description"
    3. To change the displayed title of the RSS Viewer, click "+" next to Appearance and edit the "Title" field
  6. Click the "OK" button (bottom right)
  7. Click "Exit Edit Mode" (top right)

 

Edit a RSS Viewer

  1. Select the downward-pointing triangle to the right of the RSS Viewer title > "Modify Shared Web Part"
  2. Change to your desired RSS feed url in the "RSS Feed URL" field
    1. To edit the number of displayed entries, change number in "Feed Limit" field
    2. For a more detailed feed, check "Show feed title and description"
    3. To edit the displayed title of the RSS Viewer, click "+" next to Appearance and edit the "Title" field
  3. Click the "OK" button (bottom right)

 

Delete a RSS Viewer

  1. Select the downward-pointing triangle to the right of the RSS Viewer title > "Modify Shared Web Part"
  2. Select "edit" to the right of the RSS Viewer title > "Delete"
  3. Click "OK"

 

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