Introduction
The Section Feed plug-in
automatically cross-publishes content items. It executes a set of
feeds
. A feed
selects content items
that meet specified criteria from a source
section, and
publishes them in a destination
section.
All the information needed to carry out these operations is stored in a
special
Content Engine
publication resource an XML publication resource called a
section-feed
resource. Like most of the standard
Content Engine
publication resources described in the
Escenic
Content Engine Resource Reference, the menu resource is an XML
file. Once you have created a section-feed
resource for
a publication you can upload it to the
Content Engine
in the same way as you upload other resources, using the
escenic-admin
web application (for details, see
http://docs.escenic.com/ece-server-admin-guide//upload_resources1.html).
When the
Section Feed plug-in
is installed and started, it will listens for relevant events generated by
the
Content Engine:
events such as a content item being created, a content item being added to
a new section and so on. When a significant event occurs, the
Section Feed plug-in
checks the section-feed
resource to see if the event
should trigger a cross-publishing action, and if so carries out the
action.