Radar Wizard Help
Radar Wizard
This Radar Wizard allows you to create or edit your own radar in a couple of simple steps :
1.

Nine types of feeds will be generated for your radar by default: News, Blogs, Web Search, Articles, Video, Amazon, Forums, Images and Bids. Select desired mix of feeds by checking or un-checking Feed Type checkboxes on the top of the page.

2.

Enter radar search keyword or phrase, e.g. swords or “archeological discovery”+ Greece , and click Generate button. Feed items will be displayed below in the preview pane.

3.

Review the results to ensure your selection criteria finds what you expect. You can modify search criteria at any time and click on Generate button again to refresh the results. You can also exclude unwanted feed types by un-checking a checkbox beside appropriate feed type in the preview pane.

4.

Once you are satisfied with the quality and relevance of returned feed items and you are creating new Radar, you could click on Publish New Radar button on the bottom of the page. Pop-up window for entering your radar description will be displayed.  

5.

Enter radar name and radar description, and click on Save button. Congratulations, your radar is now created! Message appears. To access your new radar, click on My Radars link located on the top menu bar. You can also access your published radars from any RadarFarms page by clicking on My Radars links in the menu. Once the radar is created you can modify it’s description, add or edit RSS feeds, and attach them to your radar using RadarFarms administration module. To access it, click on My Admin link located on the top menu bar.

6.

If you would like to add the returned feed items to your existing Radar, click on Update Existing Radar button on the bottom of the page. Pop-up window for editing your radar description will be displayed.  

7.

Edit radar name and radar description or keep them, and click on Save button. Congratulations! You successfully updated your Radar message appears.

 

 

There are another two advanced pieces of functionality are available for Radar Wizard user:

Advanced Selection:

Advanced Selection functionality allows you to create or edit your own radar using the following options:

1.

Including all the words – the return feed’s items contain ALL the search terms you type in.

2.

Including an exact phrase – the returned feed’s items contain the exact phrase you type in

3.

Including at least one of the words – the returned feed’s items contain at least one of the words you type in

Please note: At least one Including condition should be filled in

4.

Excluding all of these words - the returned feed’s items do NOT contain any of the words you type in

5.

Domain with three (3) sub-options:

     a)     Any – no constraints on source of the returned feed’s items

     b)     Including – the feed’s items are returned only from one domain (e.g., www.cnn.com)

     c)     Excluding – the feed’s items are returned only from all sources but one domain (e.g., www.cnn.com)

When you chosen the advanced selection options, click on    Generate button. Feed items will be displayed below in the preview pane. Review the results to ensure your selection criteria finds what you expect. You can modify search criteria at any time and click on Generate button again to refresh the results. Then you could add the returned feed’s items to your new or existing Radar (see item 4-7 from Radar Wizard help above)

Widget Generation :

Radar Widget is a snippet of code that can be embedded in any HTML or PHP page on your site or blog to display fifteen (15) most recent items from your radar, which is hosted on RadarFarms. 

1.

Open a page file where you want to install your editor of choice.

2.

Find a place in the HTML or PHP code where you’d like your widget to appear.

3.

Copy and paste your radar widget code below into the file and save it.

4. In order to take the full advantage of different styling options, each content element delivered by the widget can be configured individually. The following is the description of widget style parameters:
width – text width. The default is 370px
feeddescr – feed item title style
feeddetailsdescr – feed item description style
feeddetailslink – feed item link style
radardescr – radar description style
5. Test the widget on your site, and modify style configuration parameters if necessary.