RSS Agility

MySmartChannels includes new capabilities in its RSS feeds that allow you to get the complete description content of channel items. For example, this Weblog is available as a full-bodied feed at this address.

http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/rss/214?model=rss/std&description=full

This makes it possible to subscribe to a feed with something like NewsGator (that also persists the content in Outlook or Exchange folders). The result is a useful way to read the entire item offline on a notebook and it provides a natural (real-time) backup system for the channel.

MySmartChannels also provides additional flexibility with these new optional parameters:

• description=none|summary|full (default=summary)
• channelDescription=none|summary|full (default=value of 'description' parameter)
• itemDescription=none|summary|full (default=value of 'description' parameter)
• enhanced=true|false (default=false)
• limit=n (default=no limit)
• score=none|emoticon|simple|stars|text (default=text)
• smartPoints=true|false (default=true)
• sortKey=CreateTime|ModifyTime|Name|...any MyST-ML child element... (default=CreateTime)
• sortOrder=ascending|descending (default=descending)