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Hi Hagan,<br>
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Thanks for this tip.<br>
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I should have mentioned we did try this route but found that the feed
to the browser does not offer us the same flexibility as the feed
direct to Thunderbird (e-mail). With the browser it is difficult to set
up the frequency of when to get the updates and the browser feed<br>
typically provides just the url of the page, the user then has to click
on it to view the page.<br>
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>From a work perspective my users are in two groups - those that use the
wiki to author data, and those that use the wiki to read/respond to the
data. For the first group - the RSS feed isn't an issue, they are
using the wiki all the time anyway and are the cause of the updates!
For the second group - they would only go to the wiki when prompted (by
an update) and do not use the web that often. Instead these users are
using Thunderbird for most of the time for e-mail, so it's naturally
intuitive for them to use the RSS folders<br>
within Thunderbird to manage the updates - as they look and feel like
e-mail. Also the benefit is the feed update frequency can be set within
Thunderbird some of the data in the projects are time very time
critical.<br>
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It is these second group of users I'm trying to address as they are not
that "web savvy" and I'm trying to make it easy as possible for them to
subscribe to the pages.<br>
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My first idea was to have an icon with the recent changes
url+?action=rss on every page - but I don't know how to go about doing
this - hence the question to the alias..... I had also thought about
creating a page with table that shows page name next to the url , i.e
if you want to have a feed for group.page X then copy url Y into
Thunderbird. This is not very elegant but might work until the list
gets quite long - and of course it suffers from the fact that I have to
monitor each new group.page as it's created and update the table. <br>
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So at the moment I'm a bit stuck.. Perhaps there are other/better ways
of doing this too - I'm open to any further suggestions.<br>
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Best Regards<br>
<br>
Graham<br>
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H. Fox wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 10/24/07, Graham Archer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Graham.Archer@sun.com"><Graham.Archer@sun.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello,
Firstly I'd like to say that my team have only been using PmWiki for a
few weeks but we already are finding it a great way
to collaborate and share our work - thank you for making this available
to us.
We have various pages within our wiki that contain "project status"
information. This information changes frequently.
The RSS feed feature within PmWiki is great - it allows the users - (who
use Mozilla Thunderbird) - to
receive the updated pages within their Thunderbird client.
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Try enabling web feed autodiscovery with this recipe.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FeedLinks">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FeedLinks</a>
If they are browsing with Firefox, they can go directly to a feed's
URL by clicking on the feed icon in the location bar.
Hagan
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