Channel settings

To change a channel's configuration, open its Channel Properties dialog. There are several ways to do this:

• Right-click on the channel in My Channels and choose Properties.
  
  
• If the channel is selected in My Channels, choose Properties from the Edit main menu. Or just press Alt-Enter.
  
  
• If the channel's window is already open and currently active, choose Properties from the Edit main menu. Or right-click on the browser window's tab and choose Properties from there.

The first page lets you control how the channel will operate.

• Automatically update this channel
  Causes Awasu to regularly check this channel for new content.

  Specify how frequently to check by choosing an interval from the droplist or typing in a value e.g. 90 minutes or 3 days.
• Animate the system tray icon
  Causes the system tray icon to be animated whenever new content is received.
• Play a sound
  Causes a sound to be played whenever new content is received. Click on the Properties button to change the sound.

  Using this feature, you could have different channels play a different sound when new content is received.
• Show me a notification balloon
  Causes a notification balloon to be shown whenever a new item is received. Clicking on this balloon will take you directly to the new item.

  Where the balloons are shown and for how long can be set in the Program Options.
• Consolidate multiple new items into a single balloon
  If more than one new item is received, they will be consolidated into a single notification balloon instead of showing one balloon for each item.

• Auto-download enclosures
  Causes Awasu to automatically download any enclosures embedded in the channel's feed.
• Mark all items as read on close
  Automatically marks all feed items as read when the channel's window is closed.
• Show in the sidebar
  Shows the channel in the Sidebar.
• Show in the system tray menu
  Shows the channel in the system tray menu.

  This menu can be shown by right-clicking on the system tray icon. If you have a lot of channels in this menu, you may want to organize them by putting some of them in sub-menus.

Content presentation

Awasu provides a great deal of control over how feed content is presented. Default settings can be made in the Program Options but can also be overridden individually for each channel.

The overall look and feel of the channel's summary page is controlled by a template file while the Layout setting controls where the item pane will appear within the channel's main window.

You can also configure:

• which feed items will be shown (all of them, only unread ones or only new ones)
• how far back to show items from (by age or by number of items)
• how feed items will be presented (all content, a short excerpt or a plain-text version).