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# Test Syndication Feeds

Before you enable a feed for customers, test the feed definition.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d50071e72 ">Create, edit, or delete a feed definition:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d50071e72 ">Modify All Data</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d50071e72 ">Subscribe to a feed</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d50071e72 ">No special user permission required</td>

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1. After you create a feed, from Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Sites, and then select **Sites**.
2. Click the site for which you've defined the feed.
    
    Alternatively, you can navigate to the feed detail page any number of ways, including clicking the feed name from the site detail page.
3. Click **Preview** for the feed you wish to test.
4. If one or more bind variables have been used in the feed, a dialog appears. Enter a test value for each bind variable.
5. A dialog appears allowing you to create a bookmark for the feed with the bind variable values you specified. You can save the bookmark, or cancel the dialog.
6. The values returned by your feed are displayed. Verify that the results are what you expected.

#### See Also

- [About Syndication Feeds](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.feeds_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Syndication feeds give users the ability to subscribe to changes within Salesforce Sites and receive updates in external news readers. Simply by defining a SOQL query and mapping, you can syndicate changes to public data to your end users. You can create one or more syndication feeds for your organization's public sites or any Visualforce page. The syndication feed displays the records specified by a SOQL query. Users can subscribe to the feed and view the feed when they visit the site or page.")
- [View Syndication Feeds](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.feeds_viewing.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "View the syndication feed definition, including what records are returned, and which data from the records is displayed.")