At F1, we've done countless ALI installations and upgrades. So many that, frankly, we sometimes get a little too comfortable with the upgrade process: install, run scripts, import PTEs (more on upgrade tips soon), and occasionally overlook things when they're first released. Because the portal historically didn't come with PTE files, I occasionally forgot to import the search cluster PTE when upgrading to grid search back when 6.1 was released.
Now we're at 6.5 and I've found myself making the same omission: forgetting to import portal PTEs. Specifically, 6.5 comes with a Remote Portlet Web Service, and it is used (among other things) to provide basic RSS functionality and Activity Stream functionality. In order to get these objects into your portal, you need to import the RSS Content Types/Maps PTEs from \ptportal\6.5\serverpackages, and the portlet objects themselves from \remoteps\1.0\serverpackages.
The RSS reader provides some decent out of the box functionality, with a simple configuration screen:
... and a simple display of feeds:
Now for the product plug (not to be interpreted as ALI functionality bashing): what if you want more feeds to work (I still don't know why our Function1 feed - http://rss.function1.com/AquaLogicBlog/ doesn't work with this portlet), history of all articles and not just ones that are on the feed at any given time, individual read status, and a preview pane? Check out Function1's RSS Reader, of course.
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