1 ## <a name="How to Find out What's New?"></a> How to Find out What's New?
3 There are three ways to find out what's new in each TWiki web:
5 1. [[WebChanges]] shows recent changes
6 2. People subscribed in [[WebNotify]] get notified of recent changes by e-mail
7 3. A news feed can be exported in RSS 1.0 format for TWiki:Codev/TWikiSyndication. RSS news readers like TWiki:Plugins/HeadlinesPlugin can display the recent changes
9 ## <a name="RSS Feed Usage"></a> RSS Feed Usage
11 - The URL for an RSS feed is `http://www.dementia.org/twiki//view/<web>/WebRss?skin=rss`
12 - For this %WEB% web it is <http://www.dementia.org/twiki//view/%WEB%/WebRss?skin=rss> (or [http://www.dementia.org/twiki//view/Main/WebRss?skin=rss&contenttype=text/plain](http://www.dementia.org/twiki//view/Main/WebRss?skin=rss&contenttype=text/plain) for plain text RSS)
13 - You can also create a custom feed based on a search. Add a `search=value` parameter to the URL, e.g. [http://www.dementia.org/twiki//view/%WEB%/WebRss?skin=rss&search=plugin](http://www.dementia.org/twiki//view/%WEB%/WebRss?skin=rss&search=plugin) is a what's new feed about Plugins.
15 ## <a name="RSS Feed Internals"></a> RSS Feed Internals
17 Each web has a [[WebRss]] topic which includes part of this %TOPIC% topic. This topic is the base for the RSS feed and generates an RSS 1.0 feed for TWiki:Codev/TWikiSyndication.
19 The [[WebRss]] topic in each web contains the following text:
23 <channel rdf:about="%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%INCLUDINGWEB%">
24 <title>%WIKITOOLNAME%'s %INCLUDINGWEB% web</title>
25 <link>%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%INCLUDINGWEB%</link>
26 <description>(the description of the web). TWiki is a Web-Based Collaboration Platform for the Corporate World.</description>
27 %INCLUDE{"%TWIKIWEB%.WebRssBase"}%
31 Below part is included by each WebRss topic:
35 %STARTINCLUDE% <image rdf:resource="%PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/TWikiLogos/twikilogo88x31.gif" />
36 <dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
37 <dc:rights>Copyright %GMTIME{"$year"}%, Peter Thoeny and contributing authors.</dc:rights>
38 <dc:publisher>Peter Thoeny [Peter@Thoeny.com]</dc:publisher>
39 <dc:creator>Peter Thoeny [Peter@Thoeny.com]</dc:creator>
40 <dc:source>TWiki</dc:source>
42 <rdf:Description link="%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%INCLUDINGWEB%/">
43 <rdf:value>TWiki.%INCLUDINGWEB%</rdf:value>
48 %SEARCH{"%URLPARAM{"search" default=".*" }%" web="%INCLUDINGWEB%" regex="on" nosearch="on" order="modified" reverse="on" nototal="on" limit="16" format=" <rdf:li rdf:resource=\"%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic\" />"}%
52 <image rdf:about="%PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/TWikiLogos/twikilogo88x31.gif">
53 <title>TWiki.%INCLUDINGWEB%</title>
54 <link>%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%INCLUDINGWEB%</link>
55 <url>%PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/TWikiLogos/twikilogo88x31.gif</url>
57 %SEARCH{"%URLPARAM{"search" default=".*" }%" web="%INCLUDINGWEB%" regex="on" nosearch="on" order="modified" reverse="on" nototal="on" limit="16" format="<item rdf:about=\"%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic\">$n <title>$topic</title>$n <link>%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic?t=$isodate</link>$n <description>$summary</description>$n <dc:date>$isodate</dc:date>$n <dc:contributor>$n <rdf:Description link=\"%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%?topic=$wikiusername\">$n <rdf:value>$username</rdf:value>$n </rdf:Description>$n </dc:contributor>$n <wiki:version>$rev</wiki:version>$n <wiki:status>updated</wiki:status>$n <wiki:importance>major</wiki:importance>$n <wiki:diff>%SCRIPTURL%/rdiff%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic</wiki:diff>$n <wiki:history>%SCRIPTURL%/rdiff%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic</wiki:history>$n</item>"}%
62 **_See also_**: TWiki:Codev/RichSiteSummary, TWiki:Codev/TWikiSyndication
64 -- [[PeterThoeny]] - 02 Sep 2003