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Help on Rss Feeds

Our free rss feeds enable you to stay current on new Daylight Research knowledge base articles, forum activities and blog posts. You can receive our feeds through your windows desktop or laptop computer, your web browser, pocket PC, smart phone or any other digital device that provides internet access. Here are the guidelines for using Daylight Research rss feeds:

1. Obtain an rss reader. Some of the newer web browsers include a built-in rss reader. You can also get one free from the internet by searching on the key words: rss readers. One useful feature to look for is the ability to provide a popup notice on your computer desktop whenever a new feed becomes available. This feature will be useful if, for example, you have posted a message on a Daylight Research community forum and you want to be notified without delay when a reply is posted.

2. Subscribe to your rss feed(s). Following are the directions for subscribing to the four types of Daylight Research feeds:

a. Knowledge Base feeds: Log in and navigate to the Article Categories page. Find the knowledge base category that you are interested in and click it's rss icon. --

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After you click the rss icon, your browser will display a summary of the articles in the category you have chosen. At this point, the Daylight Research website will have done it's job and it will be up to your web browser and/or your rss reader to complete the subscription process and each deals with this process in it's own way. If, for example, you are browsing with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 you will be taken to a page with a Subscribe to this feed button. If you choose to use IE 7's built-in rss reader as your default rss reader, then your task is as simple as clicking that button. On the other hand, if you are using a different rss reader, then you must follow the directions in your rss reader documentation on the subect of how to subscribe to a feed. For example, if you are using the freely available SharpReader, you would copy the url in the address bar of your web browser into the Open Rss Feed dialog and then check the Subscribe to feed check box.

After you have subscribed to your knowledge base category feed, you will be notified, through your internet connection, every time a new knowledge base article in that category is published.

To unsubscribe to feeds and otherwise manage them, study your rss reader documentation.

b. Community Forum feeds: Log in and navigate to the Forums page. Find the community forum that you are interested in and click it's rss icon. Follow the instructions in your rss reader documentation as to how to subscribe to this feed. (See italicized comments under Knowledge Base feeds above.) After you have subscribed to your community forum feed, you will receive notification every time a new discussion thread or reply is posted.

c. Community Forum Discussion Thread feeds: When you subscribe to a discussion thread feed, you will be notified only when a new reply is made to a particular discussion thread. To subscribe to this type of feed, log in and navigate to the Forums page and then select the particular forum that you are interested in. (If you are subscribing to a thread that you have started, select the forum where you posted your thread.) You will be taken to the Browse Threads page. In the Browse Threads page, locate your discusssion thread and click the rss button. Follow the instructions in your rss reader documentation as to how to subscribe to this feed. (See italicized comments under Knowledge Base feeds above.) After you have subscribed to your discussion thread feed, you will receive notification every time a reply is made to the thread that you have subscribed to.

d. Blog post feeds: Since blog posts are not divided up into categories, simply click the rss button on the Tools bar of any blog post and follow the usual procedure as described above (in the italicized comments under Knowledge Base feeds) to receive notification when a new blog post is made.

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