Omea Pro Help: Feeds & Weblogs

 

Omea Reader Help: Feeds & Weblogs

Using Omea ReaderOmea Pro with Feeds and Weblogs

Omea ReaderOmea Pro has a built-in feed reader that supports both RSS and Atom (including ATOM 1.0) feeds. You can subscribe to feeds individually, or by importing an exported OPML file from another aggregator (reader). You can export your Omea Reader Omea Pro feed subscriptions to OPML format as well.

RSS and Atom feeds are often published by weblogs (a.k.a. "blogs"). If there is a third-party Weblog Posting Extension plugin for your particular weblog, and if you install that plugin via the Feeds options, you can post a new item into your blog that references the post in the weblog you are currently reading in Omea Reader Omea Pro.

Subscribing to a Feed

The subscription process is the same for both RSS and Atom feeds.

Subscribing to an Individual Feed

To subscribe to a feed, you must know the URL of the feed data file. This is an XML file which has the feed’s data either in RSS or Atom format. If you don’t know the URL of the feed data file itself, but you do know the URL of the web site that hosts the feed, Omea ReaderOmea Pro will try to locate all the feed data files at that URL. If it finds one or more, it reports them to you so you can decide which feed(s) to subscribe to.

To subscribe to a feed:

  1. Select the Feeds tab in the Main window.
  2. Either...
    • Choose Tools | Subscribe to Feed on the Main menu.

    • Right-click the white space in the Feeds pane and choose Subscribe to Feed on the context menu, or...
    • Click the Subscribe to Feed icon on the Items List toolbar.
    • Press Ctrl+N on the keyboard.

    The Subscribe to Feed wizard appears.

    Subscribe to Feed wizard

    Subscribe to Feed wizard (step 1)

  3. Enter the URL (address) of the feed on the web. This is the address of the feed data file, not a web page. Your entry should be something like:
    http://somesite.com/feeds/productnews.xml

    If you are not sure of the exact address of the feed, you can enter the URL of the site and Omea ReaderOmea Pro will try to find any feed data files there.
  4. If the feed you are subscribing to requires you to log in, and you either you have never logged in before, or you have logged in using Internet Explorer© and the browser is not set to remember your login information, then check the box next to The feed requires an HTTP login, and supply the user name and password.
  5. Click Next.
    • If you entered a valid URL for a feed data file, the dialog offers you the option of specifying a title to appear in the Feeds pane, and of specifying a Feed Folder or creating a new Feed Folder in which the feed will appear in the Feeds pane. Optionally change the title and specify or create a Feed Folder, and click Finish to complete the subscription.
      Valid feed options

      Feed subscription when a valid feed URL has been specified.

    • If you entered a web site URL and Omea Reader Omea Pro found one or more feed data files, the dialog offers you a choice of which one you want to subscribe to.
      Multiple feeds at URL

      Multiple feeds found at a web site URL

      Check the desired feed or feeds and click Next. The dialog will offer the option of re-titling and selection of Feed Folder as described above (if you have selected one feed to subscribe to). If several feeds are selected, you won't be able to edit the feed title at this step of the startup wizard but you can easily change it in the Feed Properties dialog. Click Finish on that screen to complete the subscription.

Other Possibilities for Subscribing to Feeds

Subscribing from the Internet Browsers

You can subscribe to the feeds from within Mozilla©, Firefox©, and Internet Explorer© using Omea Connector plugin and Omea Add-on respectively. The plugin is installed automatically in Internet Explorer© and you need to install it manually for Mozilla-based browsers. After the plugins are installed, a special toolbar for subscribing to feeds appears.

Toobar in Mozilla

A toolbar in Mozilla© (it looks the same in Firefox© and Internet Explorer©)

Using Omea Connector Plugin for Mozilla© and Firefox© you can subscribe to the feeds both when Omea ReaderOmea Pro is running or when it is turned off. Omea Add-on for Internet Explorer© provides the same possibilities for subscribing to feeds — simply click Subscribe to Feed button on this toolbar and then follow the instructions of Omea's Subscribe to Feed wizard. For more information, refer to Working with Browser Plugins.

Subscribing using Drag-and-Drop Mechanism

You can also subscribe to feed by dragging the address of the web page or the link on the web page (in some external web browser) and dropping this link to any place of the Feeds pane in Omea ReaderOmea Pro. If you already have some Feed Folders and want to add the feed subscription to some group, the Feed Folder to which you want to drop the web link becomes selected (the rectangle border appears around the Feed Folder name) and the mouse pointer changes its appearance as in figure below.

Dropping the Link to the Feeds Pane

Dropping the web link from the external browser to the Feeds pane

Once you release the mouse button, the Subscribe to Feed wizard opens. Follow the wizard instructions to subscribe to the feed.

Please note that you can subscribe to feeds using drag-and-drop mechanism only from the external web browsers.

Subscribing to Search Feeds

Now you can search the entries of the words which you specify as a search criteria to look for in different feed search engines which are Feedster, Google News, MSN Search, Yahoo! Search, Blogdigger, and blogs.yandex.ru. Once you specify the search criteria and come through the feed subscription wizard, Omea will detect if the entries of words you specify appear in the feeds listed on the search engine. You can also set notifications to be aware of the changes in the blogs mentioned on the chosen feeds search engine.

Subscribing to the search feed is very much like the subscribe to feed procedure (see Subscribe to feed above). To call this wizard, from the Tools, select Subscribe to Search Feed or right-click any space of the Feeds pane and select the same on the shortcut menu.

Subscribe to Search feed dialog

Subscribe to Search Feed dialog (word “Omea” is entered as a search keyword and the “Blogdigger” search engine is selected)

Once you have come through the Subscribe to Search Feed wizard, the feeds mentioning the search keyword(s) you have specified and registered on the search engine which you have selected are downloaded and appear in the Items List.

Illustration of how you can subscribe to search feed

Illustration of how Omea searches for entries of the keywords using different blogs search engines

Once you are subscribed to the search feed, and you update all feeds or the feed which contains the results of search, new items which appeared and can be retrieved by the search feed, appear in Omea as well. So you will always be up-to-date with tracking the entries of the words which you have specified when subscribing to the search feed.

 

When searching using MSN and Yahoo! search engines, Omea finds instances of words or phrases on the web but not in blogs (feeds).

Importing Feed Subscriptions from Other Readers and OPML Files

If you have been reading feeds in a different aggregator (reader), you can import your subscriptions from that program into Omea ReaderOmea Pro. You can now import subscriptions from Bloglines, RSS Bandit, SharpReader and FeedDemon or import your subscriptions which you have previously saved in OPML file.

To import feed subscriptions from other readers and OPML files:

  1. Use the Export feature of your other feed reader program to export your feed subscriptions to an OPML file.
  2. Start Omea and choose File | Import Feed Subscriptions on the main menu or right-click in any place of the Feeds pane and select Import Feed Subscriptions….
    The Import Feed Subscriptions wizard appears.
  3. Select one or several readers from which you want to import your feed subscriptions or OPML file and follow the wizard directions.

     

    If you are not certain how many feeds the OPML file will subscribe to, or what all of the feeds are, check Preview feed before import option. In the Subscription Import Preview dialog, select (check) the feeds which you want to import.

  4. If you selected Bloglines, type your Bloglines login and password when prompted and click Next or Finish.
  5. If you selected OPML files, click Add File to add the feed subscriptions stored in files or Add URL to navigate to the desired feed subscription file when prompted and click Next or Finish. Some feed publishers provide an OPML file on the web, enabling you to subscribe to one or more of their feeds. You can import these subscriptions from the online OPML file. Just enter its URL on this step.
  6. When you are done, click Finish.
    The imported feeds will appear in the Feeds pane of the Feeds Tab.

 

Unsubscribing

You can unsubscribe from an single feed, multiple feeds, or from all feeds in a Feed Folder.

To unsubscribe from a single feed or multiple feeds:

  1. Select the feed to delete in the Feeds pane. To unsubscribe multiple feeds, hold down the Ctrl key and click on each feed you want to unsubscribe.
  2. Press Del(ete), or right-click any selected feed in the Feeds pane and choose Unsubscribe.
  3. When prompted to confirm that you want to delete the feeds, click Yes.

To unsubscribe from all feeds in a Feed Folder:

  1. Select the Feed Folder in the Feeds pane.
  2. Press Del(ete), or right-click the Feed Folder and choose Delete.
  3. When prompted to confirm that you want to delete all feeds in the group, click OK.

Feeds and Workspaces

If you subscribe to a feed while working in the All Workspace, the feed will be accessible in all other Workspaces, whether existing now or created in the future.

If you subscribe to a feed while working in a custom Workspace, the feed will be accessible only in that Workspace (and in All as well). If you want to have is accessible in another custom Workspace, you will need to explicitly add it. For more information, see Associating Resources with a Workspace.

 

If you decide to unsubscribe from the feed in some Custom Workspace which is also available in the All workspace, this feed will be deleted both from the Custom and All Workspace.

Organizing Feeds with Feed Folders

In the Feeds pane, you can organize the feeds you have subscribed to into Feed Folders. You can create new Feed Folders when you subscribe to a feed, or any time later on. If you need to reorganize your feeds, you can drag a feed and drop it into any Feed Folder, or to the top level of the Feeds pane.

Feed Groups

To create a new Feed Folder:

  1. In the Feeds pane right-click on the pane background if you want to create a top-level group. If you want to create a new group within and existing group, right-click the existing folder.
  2. Choose New Feed Folder on the context menu.
  3. Type the Feed Folder name and press Enter.
  4. Then drag the feeds from the Feeds pane root or other Feed Folders and drop them to the new Feed Folder.

Reading Feed Postings

Posts in an RSS or Atom feeds are similar articles in newsgroups... they are the content you want to read.

Once subscribed, you can select the feed to read in the Feeds pane (Left sidebar). When you select a feed, the list of posts appears in the Items List of the Feeds tab. Unread articles appear in bold type.

If you select a Feed Folder in the Feeds pane, the Items List displays a combined list of posts in all feeds in the selected group.

When you select a post in the Items List, its text (body) appears in the Item Viewer.

You can view the post in an external web browser. Either double-click on the post, or choose Open in Browser on the article’s context menu.

 

You can enable the AutoPreview option (View>AutoPreview). You can choose to preview all feeds and feeds comments in the Items List or choose to autopreview the unread messages only (View>AutoPreview>Unread Items) or not to view the feeds posts with autopreview.

Refreshing the List of Posts

To refresh the feed and download new posts:

  1. Select the feed or several feeds (press and hold down Ctrl or Shift) in the Feeds pane.
  2. Choose Tools | Update Feeds on the main menu, or right-click on the feed and choose Update on the context menu.

If the feeds are organized using the Feed Folders, you can update all feeds which the Feed Folder contains. To do so: right-click the Feed Folder name and select Update.

 

You can also define a per-feed update interval. To do so, repeat step one of the procedure described above, then right-click and select Properties. Switch to Settings tab and set the desired update interval in Update every field.

Expanding All Threads

Use this command (View>Expand All Threads) to view all feed posts and their comments as threads (Thread in general is a set of posts on a feed post, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it). Please note that if the feed, for which you apply this command, contains many posts and comments, it many require some time to “redraw” the Feeds Items List.

Using Newspaper View

By default, the Items List for feeds contains a listing of the titles of all the posts. You can sort the list in various ways by clicking on the different column headers.

Newspaper” View for feeds provides you with maximum flexibility for customizing and reading your feed posts. In this View, the feed posts follow each other like chapters in the book.

Newspaper View can be applied to all Views in the Feeds tab (such as Today, Unread) or you can

To apply this View to the selected feed or feeds, select the feed or feeds in the Feeds pane (press and hold down Ctrl if you want to select several feeds) and click Newspaper View button () on the Feeds Item List Toolbar. The feeds list will look like this.

Newspaper view

Newspaper view for feeds

The feed posts now follow each other, and you can customize the "Newspaper" view and perform different actions with the selected feed post or posts.

Main Possibilities for working with Newspaper View

Paging: You can specify the number of feeds posts you can view on a single “newspaper page” by selecting from 10 to 100 items per page from the toolbar which is located at the bottom of the Feeds list. If the feed contains many entries, you can easily browse through them by clicking on the pages buttons in the Feeds toolbar.

Filtering: You can select the number of filters which correspond to the Views which you have in Views and Categories pane

Marking as Read: Mark as Read by timer (is set in Omea's General options)

Navigating between unread articles: use the Ctrl-U (Go to next Unread item) hotkey combination to easily browse through unread items

Navigating between pages: Ctrl-Shift-A (Go to next Unread item)

Searching in Newspaper View: Quick Find feature (which allows you to find items on the page you are currently browsing) works in the Newspaper View.

To turn the Newspaper View off, click the Newspaper View icon again.

Viewing and Reading Feed Comments

If the feed you are viewing supports comments and exports them to RSS/Atom format, and if comments are present, the Comment Count column appears in the Items List for Feeds, and the Read Comments icon appears on the Items List toolbar.

Click the Read Comments icon to download the comments. Comments appear in the Items List as replies to the post to which they refer; the Comments body appears in the Item Viewer.

Unread Comments Count

You can view the number of comments in the Comments Count column of the feeds Item List. If the feed thread (feed post and reply to the post) contains several comments which are not read, the number of comments in the Comments Count column is shown bold. Once you have browsed through all comments and the feed post, the number of comments changes to regular (not bold).

 

If the Comment Count column is not visible, right-click any column header and select Configure Columns. In the Resource List Columns dialog which appears, select Comment Count.

 

The number of comments in some feeds may not appear the same if you browse the feed and its comments in some web browser.

Marking Posts as Read

There are several ways to mark an unread post as read:

 

You can set an option in Omea General options to automatically mark items, including posts to RSS and Atom feeds, as read after a specified time interval. This option is enabled by default and the default time interval is 2 seconds.

Marking the entire feed as read

You can mark every post in a feed as read in a single operation.

To mark all the posts in a feed as read:

  1. Select the feed in the Feeds pane.

  2. Right-click and choose Mark All As Read on the context menu.

  3. Press Ctrl+Shift+A on the keyboard.

Marking Posts as Unread

There are several ways to mark a read post as unread:

Expiring Feeds Posts

You can set the auto-expiration rules both globally (in the Feeds Options dialog). For more information, see Auto-expiration Rules dialog.

Downloading Feed Enclosures

Some of the feeds which you are subscribed to may contain enclosures or files… Enclosure in general is something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter. In terms of Omea enclosure is a file that is “attached” to the feed post.

Downloading feed enclosures in Omea is quite simple. If the feed contains enclosures, the web link to these enclosures is in the bottom of the feed post in the Item Viewer. Besides, the Items List has a column Enclosure Downloading State. Picture below illustrates that.

Enlcosures download state illustration

Illustration of enclosures download state

To download a feed enclosure:

  1. Select the feed post in the Items List.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Right-click and select Queue Downloading Enclosure
    • Click the Enclosure column icon for the corresponding resource.
  3. The feed enclosure will start downloading; the column icon will change to and if you move the mouse pointer to the column sign, you can see the enclosure download progress in the tooltip. When the file is downloaded, the notification balloon appears in the lower right part of the screen and the download state icon changes to and the notification balloon appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.

    You can also use this method: follow (click) the enclosure URL in the feed post, the enclosure will start downloading. If the enclosure file type is, for example, “mp3”, Windows Media Player® or other program which is used in your system to process this file type, will open.

Accessing Downloaded Enclosures

When the enclosure download is complete, you can access the downloaded files in the file directory which you have specified in Omea's feeds enclosures settings and Feed properties dialog. You can also right-click the feed post which has the downloaded enclosure and select Locate on Disk. Omea will open the folder which contains the enclosures. By default, it is “My Enclosures” folder.

Alternatively you can open the enclosure directly in the associated application by right-clicking on the enclosure icon and selecting Run Enclosure Program on the context menu.

 

Omea can download only once enclosure at a time, though you can and all other enclosures will be pending for downloading.

If you have specified the download period in Feeds Properties dialog, the enclosures will be downloaded only during that period. Once you set the enclosure for downloading, the column icon will change to and the download will take place only download period defined in the Feed Options dialog.

Canceling Downloading Enclosures

If you have mistakenly started downloading the feed enclosure, you can easily cancel it. Select the enclosure which is already downloaded or is pending for downloading and select Cancel Downloading Enclosure. The enclosure will not be downloaded and the state column icon will change to Not Downloaded (). You can start downloading enclosures any time later.

Deleting an Enclosure

You can delete an already downloaded enclosure directly from Omea - right-click on the enclosure icon and select Delete Enclosure on the context menu.

Customizing Feeds Items List

To increase your productivity of working with enclosures and always have the required information at hand, you can customize Omea's Items List. To do so, you need to call the Configure Columns dialog. You can access this dialog from the context menu of the column headers in the main window Items List or from the View menu, select Configure Columns…

Enclosure Downloading State

Represents the state (planned for downloading, in progress, completed, failed) of downloading the feed enclosures.

Enclosure Size

Provides information about the size of the enclosure in bytes.

Enclosure Type

Provides information about what type of file the feed enclosure is.

Enclosure URL

A link to the enclosure URL.

Saving the Feed Posts

You can now save the feed posts onto your PC.

To save a feed post:

  1. Click the Feeds tab, select to the desired feed in the Feeds pane and select the feed post or feed posts you want to save in the Items List.
  2. Choose File | Save As on the Main menu.
  3. In the Save As dialog which opens, select the location for your feed post(s), then type the name and click Save.

Customizing the Properties of Several Feeds

You can customize such properties as login and password and feeds update interval of several feeds selected in the Feeds pane or all feeds of the selected Feeds group.

Select several feeds in the Feeds pane by holding down the Ctrl or Shift on the keyboard, right-click and choose Properties on the shortcut menu.

You can also customize the properties of all feeds in the selected Feed group — right-click the Feed Folder in the Feeds pane and select Properties.

Sending the Feed Post to Someone Else

It is possible to send a post in a feed to someone else via e-mail.

To forward a post:

  1. Click the Feeds tab, select to the desired feed in the Feeds pane and select the feed post you want to forward in the Items List.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Choose Actions | Forward on the Main menu,
    • Press Ctrl + Shift + F,
    • Choose Forward in the context menu of the selected item, or the Item Viewer,
    • Click the Forward buttonForward buttonon the Items List toolbar.
  3. A new e-mail message is created with the title of the selected post in the Subject, and the text in the message body.

    You can also forward several feed posts at a time. To select several feed posts, press and hold down Ctrl button. To send these posts, repeat step two of the procedure described above.

Deleting the Feed Posts

You can now delete the feed posts using Del(ete) key on the keyboard. The deleted feed posts are moved to the Deleted Resources View in the Views and Categories pane.

 

Feed posts in the Deleted Resources View are not removed from your Omea's database until you choose to empty the Deleted Resources. To delete the feeds posts permanently from Omea, right-click the Deleted Resources View and select Empty Deleted Resources or select certain feed posts, right-click and select Delete or press Del(ete) on the keyboard.

If you unsubscribe from the feed, the feed posts are deleted permanently from your system.

If you decide that you have mistakenly deleted some feeds posts, you can restore them from the Deleted Resources. To do so: select the feed post or several feeds posts (hold Ctrl or Shift to select several feeds posts), right-click and select Undelete on the shortcut menu.

Printing Feed Postings

To print a feed posting:

  1. Select the item in the Items List.
  2. Right-click and choose Copy Article URL on the context menu.

Remembering the Feed Posting's URL

Though Omea shows the feed posting's URL at the bottom of the content under the horizontal bar, sometimes it is inconvenient to scroll to the bottom just to copy the posting URL into clipboard. Now you can copy the posting's shortcut from any point in the content pane or staying on the posting resource in the Items List.

To copy a feed posting's URL into the clipboard:

  1. Select the item in the Items List.
  2. Either...
    • Choose File | Print on the Main menu, or...
    • Click the Print icon on the Items List toolbar.

Updating Feeds

You can control how often Omea ReaderOmea Pro checks for updates to feeds. You can set the default interval for a feed updates in the Feeds options in the Options dialog. You can access this dialog from the Tools | Options: Feeds: Default feeds update interval.

To change the update interval for a specific feed, you can select it in the Feeds pane, right-click, choose Properties from the context menu. The Feed Properties dialog appears and you can set the interval for this selected feed there. To set the time interval, click Settings tab, check Update every option and select (type) number in the number box and select the time unit.

The Feed Properties dialog

Feed Properties dialog

To update the feeds, use:

Auto Updating Feeds Comments

If you want to keep an eye on some feed post which contains comments you can tell Omea to auto-update the comments for this feed. Thus, you won't have to press Read Comments on the Items List toolbar when you want to check if the new comments are available:

Right-click the feed in the Feeds pane and select Auto Update Feed Comments.

 

The comments will be updated automatically in the feed thread for which you have once clicked the Read Comments button.

Once you click the Read Comments button, you show Omea that you are interested in this specified feeds thread.

 

The comments update interval is the same as for the feeds which is set in Tools>Options>Internet>Feeds>Default feeds update interval. Please note that comments will stop updating depending on the value of Stop updating feeds comments if no comments have been received for setting in Omea ReaderOmea Pro options. It is recommended to set the value of this option rather big, for example, 100 hours.

Renaming Feeds and Feed Folders

To rename the feed:

  1. Navigate to the Feeds tab.
  2. Select the feed or the feed folder which you want to rename in the Feeds pane and do one of the following:
    • From the Edit menu, select Rename RSS/ATOM Feed
    • Right-click and select Rename RSS/ATOM Feed
    • Press F2
  3. Type the new feed name and either click Enter or click in any place of the Feeds pane.

 

Stop and Resume Updating Feed

If (for some reason) you want not to receive posts from the particular feed you can easily Suspend that subscription and resume it later.

To suspend (resume) feed updates:

  1. Navigate to the Feeds tab.
  2. Select the feed in the Feeds pane.
  3. Right-click the feed and select Pause Updating Feed
  4. A small Pause icon will appear on the right-top corner of the feed icon.

    Paused feed icon

    Paused feed icon

  5. When you want to continue receive posts from this feed: right-click the feed and select Resume Updating Feed

Tips and Tricks

How to Post Comments to the Feed?

You can now post comments to the feeds which allow that from within Omea.

To comment a feed post:

  1. Navigate to the Feeds tab.
  2. Select the feed in the Feeds pane and navigate the feed post to which you want to post a comment.
  3. Right-click the feed post and select Post New Comment…
  4. In the form that opens, select or type your name and e-mail which you want to be visible to other people reading the feed, type the different subject if necessary and the comment in the white space provided for it. You can optionally enter your web page or blog address into the My web page field.
  5. Post New Comment form

    The Post New Comment Form

  6. Click Send to post your comment to the feed.

What if the Feed Update Fails?

If a feed update fails, the update error icon is shown for the feed in the Feeds pane, and an error message appears under the Items List toolbar when the feed is selected. Failure to update can be caused by network problems or by an error on the server hosting the feed. You can see the description of the error by right-clicking the feed and selecting Properties on the context menu.

Feed update error message

Feed update failed message of the Feed Properties dialog

How to Get a Desktop Alert when New Items Appear in the Feed?

If you want to receive a notification (a desktop alert) when the feed that is meaningful to you is updated, on the main menu, select Tools | Options: Feeds and check the Show desktop alert when new items are received. You can also tell Omea to show the desktop alerts when the feed enclosures are downloaded (see Feed Enclosures).

How to Tell Omea Remember Selection in Feeds between Its Restarts?

If you want Omea to remember the selected item in RSS feeds between its restarts, on the main menu, select Tools | Options: Feeds and check the Remember selection in feeds between restarts.

How to Import the Bloglines Subscriptions which I have?

If you want to access and manage your Bloglines subscriptions, you can import it in Omea. To do this, from the File menu, select Import Bloglines Subscription... to call the dialog where you can type your Bloglines Login and Password, check the Preview feed list before importing option and import the desired feed.

The Import Bloglines Subscription dialog

Please note that you can perform this operation if you have Bloglines plugin installed and activated (see, Options: Plugins). You can also import your Bloglines subscription using the standard import procedure described above.

How to Export Feeds Subscriptions?

If you want to share your feeds subscriptions with other Omea users or have the same feed subscription in some different feed reader, you can export them from Omea ProOmea Reader and import them later in a different feed aggregator or a different version of Omea.

To export the feeds subscriptions:

  1. From the File menu, select Export Feed Subscriptions…
    The Save As dialog opens.
  2. Select necessary feeds by checking the appropriate items in the list.
  3. The Export Feeds dialog

  4. Type your OPML file name and choose the destination folder and click OK.
    Your feed subscriptions will be saved and you can access the OPML file and import your OPML subscriptions any time later — just repeat the import procedure described above.

See also:

  1. Feeds Options
  2. Feed Enclosures
  3. Feed Properties Dialog