topic Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet in Alfresco Archive

RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

vdietmar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:28:20 GMT

Hi all,I was about to configure the RSS Dashlet with a custom RSS feed from German Website "Heise Online". But it looks like neither of the different RSS formats they offer is accepted by the RSS Dashlet - it always says "No news items".I have tested this on my own installation of Alfresco 3 Stable

Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

mikeh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:58:24 GMT

The RSS dashlet is quite hard-coded at the moment to only support RSS - which unfortunately you don't have there (RDF is similar, but doesn't have the channel element for starters).

You could probably source your feed through YAHOO Pipes and subscribe to the pipe's RSS output instead.

We'll be improving this dashlet in the future, but probably not in this half of the year.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

urshah — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:12:00 GMT

i have trouble with the RSS feeder as well. it doesn't always work with feeds.
I tried Yahoo Pipes and subscribed to the following URL:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=UlgRkM8n3hG4LJwnwjSbTQ&_render=rss#

It did not work. It did not give an error, but clicking OK on the configuration screen of the RSS feed, makes it think for a a second then come back to the same screen.
is this a bug?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

vdietmar — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:26:35 GMT

Hi, Mike. I'll give it a try.

Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

rays — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:16:37 GMT

I'm disappointed that even the RSS feeds from these Alfresco Forums do not appear to be well supported in Community 3.2 Share. All the html mark-ups appear in the feed entries inside the dashlet, rendering them virtually unreadable.

As noted previously in this thread, many other site feeds remain unsupported but I guess these things take time.

Ray

Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

ivan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:39:34 GMT

hello,
also had problems with rss feed in alf 3.2, for ie. if i put feed from wiki http://myipaddress:8080/share/proxy/alfresco-feed/slingshot/wiki/pages/news?format=rss dashlets remains empty. if i go directly to that link i can see content which was added. thanx

Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

tbuehrer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:50:12 GMT

I am also having a problem with the RSS dashlet. Under Labs 3 Stable, the RSS finally worked with the google news feed that we had been trying to use. Now under 3.2, the news is there but the reader does not seem to parse the markup codes. I tried a cnn rss feed as well and I could get some text there but eventually each article became a mess of markup codes.

Has something been changed?

Tim

Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

mikeh — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:19:17 GMT

No, sorry we've not had the time we'd have liked to refactor the RSS dashlet, so it's probably a slight change on the Google feed. It could just be that the dashlet is a bit too fragile right now and doesn't like one of the feed entries.

Mike

Re: RSS formats supported by the RSS Dashlet

gotfredsen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:17:43 GMT

Try out http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Rss. Let me know if it works for you!