External RSS Feed

You can configure an external RSS feed and display its items as external promos on your Brightspot site. After the feed is published, you can insert it into a News RSS Feed List module. For details, see News RSS Feed List module.

Creating external RSS feeds

To configure an external RSS feed:

1. In the header, click .

2. From the Create list, select External RSS Feed.

3. Using the following table as a reference, complete the fields as needed.

4. Complete your site's workflow and publish the asset.

   

   Note

   Once the feed is published, Brightspot displays the RSS Feed Viewer widget in the right rail. Click View Feed to view the XML markup of the RSS feed.

Main

Field	Description
Internal Name	Enter an internal name for this asset. Brightspot uses this name internally, such as in the search panel and recent activity widget. This name is not visible to visitors to your site.
Feed URL	The external URL that provides the feed.

Advanced

Field	Description
Cache Settings	Configure cache settings. See the section below for details.

Configuring cache settings

When setting up an external RSS feed, you can configure the feed's cache settings.

To configure an external RSS feed's cache settings:

1. Create a new external RSS feed.
2. In the Advanced tab, under Cache Settings, select Set.
3. Using the following table as a reference, complete the fields as needed.
4. Complete your site's workflow and publish the asset.

Field	Description
Disable Caching	Toggle on to disable caching.
Force Caching	Toggle on to force caching (for example, change the response headers to match this configuration).
Maximum Cache Size	Enter the maximum size of the cache (in megabytes).
Cache Duration	Enter the duration that content should be cached (in seconds).
Always Revalidate	Toggle on to prevent servers from storing a copy of the requested content.
Prevent Content Transformation	Toggle on to prevent servers from modifying the content of the data they are caching.
Do Not Refresh Cache	Toggle on to prevent a server from refreshing the cache upon a request; instead, the server will only respond if the content is already cached.
Tolerated Duration After Expiration	Enter, in seconds, how long the cache duration can be expired before refreshing content.
Required Duration Before Expiration	Enter, in seconds, how long before its expiration the cache should refresh.