I’m planning on creating few article/report pages within the CM1 system and then pull that content into an external web app (to be viewed mostly on mobile devices). I’ve done some research and it seems the best approach would be to use RSS feeds to pull the data from the CMS and then store it for offline use via appcache and local storage. is this at all possible? I have to admin that I don’t have much experience with RSS feeds and I’m not sure what the Percussion syndication allows for.
many thanks!
Hi Sarah,
Yes, CM1’s RSS feed generation feature would be a good tool for this job. The RSS feed functionality is built into the Page Auto-List widget (and is available for the Blog Widget as of CM1 2.13), and it allows you to create an XML RSS feed drawn from the output of your auto-list. In your case you could create a folder which houses your article pages, point a Page Auto-List to that folder, and then configure the auto-list to generate an RSS feed based on its contents.
Check out this help document, which outlines how to setup a Page Auto-List:
Page Auto List
Note that you will find the option to enable an RSS feed for your auto-list under the Meta-data menu while editing the auto-list’s contents (accessible through the Content tab). Additionally, you can configure the auto-list to display a link to its corresponding RSS feed by checking off the “Include rss icon” option while configuring the widget (accessible through the Layout tab).