Channel settings

To change a channel's configuration, open its Channel Properties dialog.

You can do this by right-clicking on the channel in the My Channels window and choosing Properties, or from the Edit main menu.

The first page lets you control how the channel will operate.

• Automatically update this channel
  Awasu will regularly check this channel for new content at the specified interval.
• Animate the system tray icon
  Animates the system tray icon when new content is received.
• Play a sound
  Plays a sound when new content is received.
• Show me a notification balloon
  Shows a notification balloon when a new item is received.

  Where the balloons are shown and for how long can be set in the Program Options.
• Consolidate multiple new items into a single balloon
  Combines multiple new items into a single notification balloon instead of showing one for each item.

• Channel folders
  Click here to assign the channel to folders.

  This can also be done by dragging the channel around in My Channels but doing it here is often quicker.
• Auto-download enclosures
  Awasu will automatically download any enclosures embedded in the channel's feed.

  Enclosures must also be enabled globally in the Program Options.
• Mark all items as read on close
  Automatically marks all feed items as read when the channel's window is closed.
• Show in the sidebar
  Shows the channel in the Sidebar.
• Show in the system tray menu
  Shows the channel in the system tray menu.

  This menu can be shown by right-clicking on the system tray icon. If you have a lot of channels in this menu, you may want to organize them by putting some of them in sub-menus.

Content presentation

Awasu provides a great deal of control over how feed content is presented.

Default settings can be made in the Program Options but can also be overridden individually for each channel.

The overall look and feel of the channel's summary page is controlled by a template file. Compact presentation is useful for feeds that provide only titles (i.e. no descriptions) for their feed items and tells the template files to switch to a more compact layout.

You can also configure:

• which feed items will be shown (all of them, only unread ones or only new ones)
• how far back to show items from (by age or by number of items)
• how feed content will be presented (full content, a short excerpt or a plain-text version).

Item panes

Click on the Item pane button to configure the appearance of the item pane. You can change where it will appear within the the channel's window and add columns to show more information about each item (e.g. author, timestamp or any other piece of item metadata).

Click on the Filters button to configure the channel to highlight items of interest and modify the feed content (e.g. remove ads) before it is shown to you.