Here is a slightly more rich example.
Let's take for example a simple News feed. These you want to have searchable on the site, you want them listable in the Asset Publisher by tags etc. You ALSO want to be able to generate an RSS feed, right? Sure!
Create a new Structure, fill in the required fields, click the "Launch Editor" button and paste the following code (overwrite the current content), "Update" and "Save" the Structure.
<root>
<dynamic-element name="title" type="text" />
<dynamic-element name="summary" type="text_box" />
<dynamic-element name="body" type="text_area" />
<dynamic-element name="image" type="image" />
<dynamic-element name="image-caption" type="text" />
</root>
Create a new Journal Template of type (VM) and associate it with the above Structure, click the "Launch Editor" button and paste the following code into the editor (overwrite the existing content), "Update" and "Save":
<h1>$title.data</h1>
<span style="font-size: smaller; color: #ccc">
By: $reserved-article-author-name.data, Updated: $reserved-article-modified-date.data
</span>
<p>$summary.data</p>
<p>
<img src="$image.data" alt="$image-caption.data" style="float: left; margin: 4px;">
$body.data
</p>
Next, create a bunch or articles using this Structure, as many as you like. You can place these articles however you like on the site using the various portlets like Journal Content portlet, Asset Publisher portlet, etc.
Finally, create a Journal Feed and select the above Structure. The "Feed Item Content" will list all the individual fields and also indicate the type. Also, you will see listed all the Templates available. This allows you to have different templates associated to each article when they are displayed on the site, BUT you can override that in the RSS feed, so that they all use a common template strictly in the RSS. For example, if you wanted the RSS items to show only the summary and the image, you could have another template like so:
<p>
<img src="$image.data" alt="$image-caption.data" style="float: right; margin: 4px;">
$summary.data
</p>
and then specify this template as the value of "Feed Item Content".
Does this help?
Please try it out and if you get stuck post back here and we'll work through it again.
