Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Custom Autodesk RSS Feeds

It is possible to create a custom RSS feed that notifies us when Updates, Hotfixes, or Service Packs become available for various products of our choosing.

Click on the title of this post to get to a page where we can select one or multiple products. Then press the "Create Custom Feed" button to be taken to another page where the custom feed URL can be aquired. This page also contains links to automatically subcribe our newly create custom feed into various desktop and web-based RSS feed readers.

It is interesting that Outlook 2007, Internet Explorer 7, and 2008 Autodesk products can now accomodate RSS feeds. This proves that receiving specific information of our choosing via the internet is a very import part of being in-touch with our world.

Note:
If we select multiple applications for the custom feed, and because Updates/Technical Solutions might be posted to various products simultaneously there may be some duplication of information. If our custom feed is for only one application, duplication of information typically does not occur.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My add RSS feed is grayed out.

Is this a feature that has to be enabled somewhere else?

thanks in advance.

Angel Espinoza said...

I am afraid I am a little bit confused. What is grayed out? If it is the "Create Custom Feed" button, it is gray simply press it. If something else is gray can you direct me as to what it is?