Flex Wiki Newsletters

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Overview

A WikiNewsletter is a list of topics and a list of people who are interested in them. On a regular basi s, the topics are scanned for changes and if there are changes, notification of those changes is sent to the list of subscribers by email.

Subscribing to a newsletter

The list of subscribers for a newletter is stored in Subscribers property of the topic that defines the newsletter. So, if there's a newsletter called RainbowNewsletter, on that page you should find a Subscribers property that contains a list of email addresses, separated by commas. Just add yourself to the list.

Note that the Subscribers property might be a hidden property that you can only see when you edit the topic.

Finding newsletters to subscribe to

To see the list of newsletters for a FlexWiki site, follow the Subscriptions link in the menu. For this site (flexwiki.com), you can find this at: http://www.flexwiki.com/rssface.aspx

RSS feeds for newsletters

The contents of each newsletter is also available as an RSS feed. If you prefer to watch changes on the site using an RSSAggregator, you might prefer to point your aggregator at some newsletter RSS feeds instead of subscribing by email to a newsletter.

To see the list of RSS feeds for a FlexWiki site, follow the Subscriptions link in the menu. For this site (flexwiki.com), you can find this at: http://www.flexwiki.com/rssface.aspx

Creating a new newsletter

To create a WikiNewsletter:

• Create a topic that describes the newsletter
• Add this topic to the WikiNewsletterIndex

Create the newsletter topic

First, create a topic describing the newsletter

• Choose a TopicName for the name of your WikiNewsletter; by convention these names usually end with Newsletter (e.g., MetaWikiNewsletter)
• Create a topic page for your newsletter
• Add a property called Description that says what your newsletter is about
• Add a property called Topics with a comma-separated list of topics, or "*" (no quotes) to include all topics
• (Optionally) add a property called Exclude with a common-separated list of topics not to include. This works best when combined with a wildcard ( * ) in the Topics property.
• Add a property called Subscribers with a comma-separated list of subscriber email addresses

Editing your WikiNewsletterIndex

Once you have created a topic for your newsletter, add it to the WikiNewsletterIndex topic. This is a list of all the newsletter topics for a namespace. Go to the WikiNewsletterIndex topic and there is a Newsletters property. This is a comma-seperated list of newsletter topics. Add the name of your newsletter topic (created above) to this list.

If your FlexWiki only has one namespace, you'll only have one WikiNewsletterIndex topic. If you have multiple namespaces, you'll want to understand that each TopicNamespace has its own WikiNewsletterIndex. When you edit yours, you need to be sure you are doing this for your the namespace (in other words, the one in the same namespace as the newsletter topic).