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October 18, 2002
Cocoon portal
Cocoon insight: Dominic is looking for some insight into building Cocoon portals. Here we go. If I read his notes right he wants to build a portal that aggregates RSS feeds. Right? Ok, so here is what you will need to do:
- Install the current Cocoon version (with the portal)
- Configure a pipeline to fetch the RSS (notice I did not say "program")
- Use the provided tools to add the feed as a coplet (portlet)
- Use the provided tools to configure your portal (for say different user groups)
- Change the Stylesheet (XSL) that displays the portal (if you want a different look and feel - and you will).
That's it. There is already a demo portal contained in Cocoon and this demo portal already fetches RSS feeds from various places - so this can be used as a template. You will not need to write any code! You may also like to take a look at this presentation. Or this article.
Posted by Matthew at October 18, 2002 09:56 AM