Advanced settings

This page contains advanced settings for the channel.

• Archive content
  Controls whether feed content will be archived and for how long.
• Disable item revisions
  Controls whether item revisions should be flagged or not.

  Awasu tracks feed items that have been published and then changed and re-published. Tick this box if you don't want modified feed items to be flagged.
• Exclude from search
  Excludes the channel's feed content from the search index.

  This is useful if the publisher is, for example, putting out feed items with no descriptions or other content that can skew search results.
• Expire this channel
  Controls whether the channel will expire.

  When the expiry date passes, Awasu will ask you what you want to do with the channel e.g. (delete, extend or keep it). This is useful when subscribing to short-lived channels (e.g. comment feeds) or channels that you are not sure you will want to keep.
• Channel folders
  Click here to quickly assign the channel to folders.

  The same effect can be achieved by dragging the channel around in My Channels but doing it here is often quicker.

Channel hooks

Channel hooks are small programs that Awasu runs to perform various actions as each channel is processed. For example, hooks can be used to send out emails when new items arrive or store them in a database if they meet certain requirements.

To attach a hook to a channel, click on the small square icon in the top right-hand corner and browse to the appropriate .HOOK file (they will usually be stored in the ChannelHooks sub-directory). Any number of hooks can be attached to a channel.

The My Channels context menu will contain special commands for each hook that has been attached to a channel. For example, Channel Monitor Windows can be opened or closed from this menu. These commands are also available from the Edit main menu.