Subscription management

Silva has a finely grained subscription feature. Visitors can subscribe and receive email notification when a part or parts of the site are updated. The Silva Manager enables the subscription feature for the whole site. Editors activate this subscription function for some or all of the content they have Editor privileges for.

Activating subscriptions from Silva

An Editor can enable the subscription feature for a particular subtree or individual document from the Silva management area.

1. Go to the area of the site you wish to activate the subscriptions feature.

2. Click on the properties tab and then click the ‘manage subscriptions...’ button.

The Editor can choose to enable or disable the subscriptions feature for a document or folder or publication, or decide to acquire the setting from its parent (this is the default setting).

The Silva root has the subscription feature set to ‘Off’ by default. In other words, even if the Manager enables the feature, no content can be subscribed to until it is activated by the Editor.

How site visitors use the subscription feature

For a visitors to be able to subscribe to part of the site, they need to click on the ‘subscribe to this page’ link located on a subscribable page and then fill in the subscription form. The Subscription service will then send out an email confirmation message to the email address supplied. This message contains a link that, if clicked, will confirm the subscription.

Cancelling a subscription follows a similar pattern: the user clicks the ‘unsubscribe’ button in the subscription user interface. The confirmation contains a link that, if followed, will cancel the subscription.

Once subscribed a visitor will receive a message whenever the document is published. This email will contain a link to the document, as well as a link to the subscription form for unsubscribing.

Visitors can also subscribe to Silva Folders and Publications. This means they’ll be notified about all changes of content contained in these areas. In other words, visitors can subscribe to a complete subtree of the content.