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    The RSS Module

    RSS feeds allow you to bring content to your Facebook Page that is hosted elsewhere. It may be your brand's own content that is on your website, or a blog that your fans might be interested in. To bring this content into the RSS module, it must have an available RSS feed.

    Before you add the RSS module, visit the source of the content you want to add and subscribe to its RSS feed. This will provide you with a URL that you will need to copy. Each RSS module can contain content from one RSS feed.

    Note: Content that you add to your Facebook Page through the RSS module will be mandatorily associated with your organization or brand. Hence, be careful to use only content that you own or have acquired a license to publish.

    Adding an RSS Module to a Oracle Social Marketing Content & Apps View

    All modules are added to a View in the same way with our drag-and-drop interface. To get more information on this, see the Building a View: Adding Modules and Content to Views in Content & Apps help article.

    Once you have added a module and given it a name, the module will open for you to edit it or add content. Back on the View layout, you'll see a callout bubble next to your module. Click the triangle for controls for your module. This callout will not appear on your published View and your new module will not appear on your Facebook Tab until you click Publish.

    Configuring Your RSS Module

    When you drag-and-drop an RSS module onto a View, it will automatically open to the edit page for that module. To configure a module you've already created:

    1. Next to your RSS module you will see a callout bubble. Click on the green triangle next to the title to show your options.
    2. Click Edit Feed. The Edit RSS Feed box will appear.
    3. Paste the URL from your external RSS feed into the Feed URL field.
    4. Select the number of articles you would like to be displayed from this source and clear any options you do not want to be included.
    5. Click Update.

    Note: Your RSS module will not appear on your Facebook page until you click Publish to Facebook on your layout page. After that, your feed will update automatically with new content from your external source.

    RSS Details

    These are the options that you can select to display on the feed:

    • Feed URL: This is the URL where the RSS feed lives. The RSS feed can look like any URL, but often is a file with .xml or .rss extension. Look for the RSS icon, if you're bringing content in from a blog.
    • Maximum entries: RSS feeds contain any number of entries from the source, but you don't have to display them all in your module. You should base the number you enter here on how long the entries usually are, and how much scrolling they may cause on your Facebook Page. Enter 0 to display all the entries in the RSS feed.
    • Show title: RSS feeds contain various pieces of information, such as title, about each entry. If you want the title to be displayed in the module, select this box.
    • Show content: The title of each entry in a feed will be a link to the feed's website. Hence, if you want to keep your Feeds module sparse, you can select not to display the actual contents of an entry, leaving fans to click the title if they want to read more.
    • Show date: This will display the date when the entry was originally published.
    • Show author: This will display the name of the person who wrote the entry.
    • Include share: Check this box to enable your Facebook fans to share any particular entry with their Facebook friends. Once the feed is displayed in the module, you can disable sharing for any individual entry on an as-needed basis.

    Modifying the Feed Display

    If you decide you want to change the way your Feed is displayed, click the Edit Feed link at the bottom of the module. Any edits you make to the feed display will automatically appear on Facebook when you click Update. You don't need to click Publish again.

    Metrics Recorded for the RSS Module

    Content & Apps captures metrics for:

    • Module views
    • Feed title click-thrus

    Customizing an RSS Module

    All customization happens in the brand CSS page.

    All modules take up 100% of the containers they are in, so you can resize them to whatever size you need with CSS.

    General Rules

    The feed can display from one or all the entries from a feed on a View. However, these entries do not paginate. Hence, if you select to display a large number of entries, the tab may not be displayed properly.

    By default, the feed will display as the entries on the original feed.

    What Can I Customize?

    • Fonts for text & links
    • Colors for text & links
    • Share button
    • Background - the background for the entire module can be customized, but you cannot set different backgrounds for each entry.
    • Horizontal rule between entries - color and length

    What is Not Customizable?

    • Entries cannot be paginated.
    • Each entry cannot have its own background.

    Class Name Constants

    There are 2 class name constants for a RSS module: