User Guide

22 Chapter 2: Extending Contribute Publishing Server

Related topics:

• “Creating a custom publishing service” on page 17

• “API data types” on page 22

• “Web service methods” on page 23

About extending the RSS Activity Feed service

You can use the RSS Activity Feed service to produce a syndication feed that lists changes that

occur in any folder on your website. Then, you can use a news reader or aggregator to view the

output of the syndication feed.

Note: If you want to use the service as is (without extending it), see “Using the RSS Activity Feed

service” on page 10.

If you want to extend the service, use the uncompiled version of the RSS Activity Feed service

code. This code is written in ColdFusion, so you need to have a ColdFusion server to extend this

service.

Note: CPS installs a special version of the ColdFusion server, which enables you to run the compiled

version of the RSS Activity Feed service as is. This server, however, is not sufficient for extending the

service. You must have the full version of the ColdFusion server running to extend the uncompiled

code.

To find the RSS Activity Feed service files for extending:

• Locate the RSS Activity Feed service files in the following default location:

C:/Program Files/Macromedia/Contribute Publishing Server/jrun4/servers/

contribute-wps/contribute/customservices_code/rssfeed

This folder contains the uncompiled code for the service, which you can modify. The files are:

events.cfc receives and parses SOAP messages.

feedmanager.cfc is a library that creates the syndication feed.

settings.xml contains settings for the RSS Activity Feed service.