Month: <span>September 2002</span>

Frontier has a pair of features which work together to make it easy for multiple to work together on changes to a single database: WebEdit and Subscribable Databases. WebEdit is a client-server application that runs in Frontier, which allows a group of people to work on a database — a website or scripting project.

The Subscriptions feature allows you to publish a database and let other people to subscribe to changes made to the database. It uses the same mechanism as updates to Frontier.root.

The two features work together — when a change is checked in to a subscribable database using WebEdit, it’s automatically added to the updates stream for the database.

In Frontier 9.0, the Database Subscriptions page lets you easily choose which databases you want to enable subscriptions for. Check the box next to the database’s name, click the submit button, and you’re done. Server administrators can also see at a glance how many parts are in the updates stream for a given database.

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While Frontier has had a built-in search engine since version 5, it has never been easier to configure than it is in Frontier 9.0.

On the Search Engine Settings page, you can enable or disable the search engine, specify the URL of your server’s search page, turn logging on or off, specify how often to index new pages, and optionally open up your search engine for public submissions through XML-RPC. (See this DaveNet piece for some background.)

Radio Community Server can take advantage of Frontier’s built-in search engine as well. Check a box on RCS’s Search Engine page, and all content upstreamed by your Radio users will be indexed by Frontier’s search engine, including text and OPML files as well as HTML.

Your Radio users can add a search box to their own sites using a simple macro.

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