Publish&Subscribe

Concepts

Publish&Subscribe allows to exchange data between any users and various applications - also between social networks on the Internet and Open-Xchange of course. Thus it is possible to share data with users who have no Open-Xchange account by sending a link to the respective information via E-Mail.

Subscribing data

How to subscribe data for a contact folder:

  1. Right-click a contact folder and from the context menu select Properties. The folder properties are displayed in the overview window.

  2. Switch to the Subscriptions tab.

  3. In the panel click Add.

  4. Select the subscription source from the Select a source drop-down list.

  5. Enter the access data for the subscription source.

  6. If you want to subscribe data from additional sources for the selected folder, repeat steps 3-5.

  7. In the panel click Save.

To retrieve the data click the Retrieve icon next to the data source.

Publishing data

How to publish data from a contact folder:

  1. In the context menu of a contact folder click Properties. The folder properties are displayed in the overview window.

  2. Switch to the Publications tab.

  3. In the panel click Add.

  4. Select the publication target from the Select a target drop-down list.

  5. Enter the requested data for the publication target e. g., access data, URL etc.

  6. If you want to publish data from the selected folder for further targets, repeat steps 3-5.

  7. In the panel click Save.