Just so you know, when File Away 3.5 is released, it will come with a complete RSS feed generation system for directories you specify. You specify any number of base directories, and it will generate RSS feeds for those directories, and recursively, for each sub-directory. Each directory and sub-directory will have its own feed. Then if you add showrss=”true” to your File Away table shortcode (not recursive tables, but any other table mode), it will provide RSS feed links for the directory you’re in on the table. If it’s a directory tree or manager mode table, it will also provide RSS feed links for each sub-directory, the link located beneath the drawer icon. There are numerous global options to control the output of your feeds. You can even add channel logo images. All feeds will be stored in one feed storage directory that you specify. The xml file names for the feeds will be _feed_8573495739485732.xml where the numbers are a micro timestamp. This numeric feed id is stored in a file called fa.feed.id.ini that will exist in each directory that has a feed. That ini file will tell File Away which feed to update in your feed storage folder, for that directory. That way, you can move directories, or rename directories, without changing the url for that specific feed. As long as you don’t delete or alter the fa.feed.id.ini file in the directory (or change your feed storage directory), the feed url will remain constant. You can store a global channel logo image in your feed storage directory. It must be named fa-feed-logo (with a jpg, png, or gif extension). That will be the default channel image for all feeds. If you want to override the default image for a specific directory’s feed, upload a different image with the same filename (fa-feed-logo.jpg|png|gif) to the specific directory, and that will be the logo image for that directory only, while all others will pull from the default image found in your feed storage directory (e.g., public_html/rss).
You can set the frequency that the feeds will update. You can exclude files from feeds based on extension, or specific strings found in the filenames.
If you are monitoring a base directory called “files” and files has four sub-directories, images, docs, videos, audio, for instance, and you don’t want a feed generated for the docs sub-directory, you can add a new instance of an Excluded Sub-Directory like so: files/docs. You can have unlimited base monitored directories (which generate feeds recursively), and unlimited specified excluded sub-directories. You don’t have to exclude a directory if it is not a sub-directory of one of the monitored directories you’ve specified.
The RSS system will not be active if you have not specified a feed storage directory. If the feed storage directory you specify does not exist, File Away will create it for you.
Feed updates are automated based on the frequency you specify from a dropdown, but you can also enable manual feed updates. If this is enabled, all your feeds will update every time you click “Save Changes” on the File Away settings page.
