SyndicationTool - Properties: Manage the properties of a Site's Syndication Instance.

Description

View and manage the properties of a sitewide syndication instance.

Controls

Enable/Disable Syndication
Turns enables/disables sitewide syndication. All methods check whether site syndication is enabled to ensure a sitewide policy is enforceable.
Syndication Module
The RSS sy XMLNS is supported in this tool by default. The following properties are editable on the tool for sitewide configuring of each of the elements of the syndication module. In this release, they are over-rideable; these will be configurable in version 1.1 to enable a sitewide policy.
UpdatePeriod
Describes the period over which the channel format is updated. Acceptable values are: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. If omitted, daily is assumed.
UpdateFrequency
Used to describe the frequency of updates in relation to the update period. A positive integer indicates how many times in that period the channel is updated. For example, an updatePeriod of daily, and an updateFrequency of 2 indicates the channel format is updated twice daily. If omitted a value of 1 is assumed
UpdateBase
Defines a base date to be used in concert with updatePeriod and updateFrequency to calculate the publishing schedule. By default the sitewide date is the DateTime of the tool initialization. The UpdateBase in the RSS XML takes this DateTime object and sringify's it through DateTime.HTML4() The date format takes the form: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm
Max Items
Defines the max number of items which are included in the syndication. The RSS Specification recommends this not exceed 15, which is the default.
DublinCore Module
The RSS dc XMLNS is supported in this tool by default. The sitewide properties will be editable on the tool for sitewide configuring of each of the elements of the dublin core module. In this release, they are over-rideable; these will be configurable in version 1.1 to enable a sitewide policy.