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Connect your Website (RSS)
Messages
If you have a website, blog, or Sharepoint site with a news feed capability (i.e. RSS or Atom),
you can have your posts automatically appear in the app’s Messages screen, and optionally go out as notifications.
You can also connect SchoolMessenger or other messaging systems this way as well.
To add a Connection for Messages to All, go to
Home Tab.
To add a Connection for a particular Class or Group,
edit the Class or Group.
- Scroll down to Connections
.
- Click Add another Connection.
- Select RSS in the Source column.
- Paste the URL of your website (or the RSS URL if you know it) into the Account Identifier* field.
- In the Notify? column, you may choose Yes for normal notifications, Yes (Urgent / Sound), or No (Just show on Messages screen).
Without notifications, users will see your posts in the Messages screen of the app, but they will not get push notifications, emails, or text messages.
- Click Save, and follow the instructions that appear.
*The system should automatically discover the direct link to your news feed for the web page you provide. If that doesn’t work for you, paste in the link to your RSS feed. Your website may have an RSS icon with a link, or you can try adding /feed/ to the end of the URL. (This may be needed for Weebly blogs, for example.)
Tips
- You can see all your Connections and their current status in the Connections Report.
- Please allow 20.0 minutes for your latest messages to appear in the app.
- If your RSS feed links to a page that requires login, and posts are being truncated, contact Support.
- You can also set things up the other way around: Create your messages in the App Dashboard,
and have them appear automatically on your website as well as being sent via the app. Learn more.
- You can also connect SchoolMessenger or any other system that supports RSS.
Calendars
Some websites also use RSS to share calendars. Please contact Appazur support if you wish to use such a calendar with
Appazur.
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