Advanced settings

This page contains advanced settings for the channel.

• Expire this channel
  Awasu will ask you what you want to do with the channel when the specified expiry date passes (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.
• Safe feed content
  Click here to control how Awasu ensures the channel's feed content is safe before showing it to you.
• Channel folders
  Click here to quickly assign the channel to folders.

  This can also be done by dragging the channel around in My Channels but doing it here is often quicker.

• Keep content for
  Archives your feed content for the specified amount of time.

  This overrides the global setting in the Program Options.
• Show revised items separately
  Awasu tracks feed items that have been changed since they were first published. Tick this box if you want to see these items separately instead of as one single item.
• Exclude from search
  Excludes the channel's feed content from the search index.

  This is useful if the publisher is putting out feed items with no descriptions or other content that can skew search results.
• Download feed items for reading offline
  Downloads linked-to feed items for reading offline.

  Images embedded in the web pages can also be downloaded but will increase the amount of disk space needed.

Channel hooks

Channel hooks are small programs that Awasu runs to do something 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).

The My Channels context menu will contain special commands for each hook that has been attached to a channel. These commands are also available from the Edit main menu.