Accessing The Rss Activity Feed Service File; Viewing The Events Log For A Website - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3-CONTRIBUTE PUBLISHING SERVER Manual

In the right pane, double-click Macromedia Contribute Publishing Server.
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The Properties dialog box appears.
Select the Log On tab, and then select the Select this Account option.
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Enter your user name and password, and then click OK.
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The user name and password you enter must have permission to copy files between the
staging and the live servers.
Now you need to forward client notification to your RSS Activity Feed service, so that the
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service knows about publish, delete, and roll back actions that occur on the website.
Complete the procedure in
Now you can use a news reader or aggregator to view changes recorded by the RSS Activity Feed
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service.

Accessing the RSS Activity Feed service file

After you set up the RSS Activity Feed service (see
on page 11), the service reports activity on your website, including Publish, Delete, and Roll Back
events in specified folders.
You can use a news reader or aggregator, such as the one in Macromedia Central, to view your
syndication feed.
To install Macromedia Central to access the RSS Activity Feed service file:
Download Macromedia Central from the Downloads page on the Macromedia website at
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www.macromedia.com.
When the installation is complete, Central launches.
Click the BlogReader button at the top of the Central window to open the BlogReader
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application.
Click the Preferences button to add the RSS Activity Feed service to the BlogReader.
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When you complete the setup, you can use the BlogReader to view output from the RSS
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Activity Feed service.
Note: There will not be any output to view until an event occurs in Contribute.
Related topics
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"About extending the RSS Activity Feed service" on page 22

Viewing the events log for a website

The Log service maintains an events log of website activity so that you can more easily
troubleshoot problems, and so you can see how many users actively update content on the
website.
Note: If you have not enabled the Log service for your website, see
Log services for a website" on page
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"Forwarding website events to a custom service" on page
"Setting up the RSS Activity Feed service"
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"Enabling or disabling E-mail and
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