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Question: How can subscribe to changes via an RSS or Atom feed?

Answer:

It is possible to get both RSS and Atom feeds from JotSpot that will alert you to changes. You can subscribe to feeds from your wiki in a number of ways. (Note: these instructions apply to beta release 0.9.2 and greater. Previous releases used a different method of subscribing to feeds. The version number is in the lower right corner of each wiki page.)

A Feed of recently changed pages in your entire wiki

At the bottom of any page, click on the Recent Changes link. On the Recent Changes page, you will see an orange XML "chiclet" in the upper right, which links to an Atom feed:

You can also click the More feed options... link to access additional feed formats, include various versions of RSS:

To subscribe to a feed right click on the orange chiclet, copy the link location, and then paste the link into your feed reader. The link will look something like:

http://yoursite.jot.com/Lib/Feed/RecentChangesFeed?format=atom&jotExportId=TableTag0

A Feed of changes to a specific page in your wiki

To get an RSS feed of the changes made to a specific page in your wiki, copy and paste this URL into your newsreader.

NOTE: you should replace the /WikiHome part of the URL with the location of the specific page in your Wiki. For example, to monitor the page http://mywiki.jot.com/WikiHome/SomePage, replace the /WikiHome part of the URL with /WikiHome/SomePage

A Feed of changes to any table in your wiki

Jot applications that use tables to display information can now provide a feed to the changes made to table information. To turn this feature on, use script markup mode to edit the page that contains your application's <table/> tag and set the exportable tag to true.

<wiki:table exportable="true" />

A table with exportable set to true displays an orange DATA chiclet in the table's footer:

which is a link to a page containing feed and export options:

Note that in addition to various feed types, you can export the table data as a Microsoft Excel file, CSV file, XML file, or HTML table.

Authentication: entering user name and password

Because a login / password is generally required to access your wiki, you need to provide a password to your feed reader. JotSpot feeds use HTTP authentication. Each feed reader uses a different method of entering user name and passwords -- please consult your specific reader's documentation. For example, the Newsgator reader uses a dialog to prompt for user name and password.