I am trying to set up an RSS feed
On the details screen I have for "Select Listing Engine Assets" an Asset Listing Page which references News items.
On the Build RSS screen I have for "Keywords Selected"
Asset Type: news_item
Keyword: asset_name (from the drop-down box. I have also tried the keyword replacement for News items %asset_attribute_name%
Tag Represented: title
For: Add Channel And Image Info"
title: our organisation's news
link: is the same asset listing page as on the details screen
description: latest additions
rdf:about: the url of our website
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The question: When I try to preview, I expect as in the documentation, the XML that will be
outputted by the asset will appear … but the preview is empty. Nor do I get ant error message.
Have I done something wrong? Have I neglected anything? Where to now?
Does anything appear in your error.log file? I don't think you have enough keywords to generate a valid RSS feed, so Matrix may be suppressing the entire output.
Hmmm … where would I find that?
System management -> log maagement has nothing relevant.
Logs for the RSS page has various categories but not error.
When I try to add keywords they just replace the existing one rather than cascade.
/data/private/logs/
Sorry, but I don't know how to use that string. Adding it to the url of the preview results in a blank screen.
That's just the path to error.log (/path/to/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log)
Anything showing up in there?
[quote]That's just the path to error.log (/path/to/matrix/data/private/logs/error.log)
Anything showing up in there?[/quote]
Found in system management -> log name -> error: (/packages/news/page_rss_feed/page_rss_feed.inc:523) - Required Tag rdf:about Is Not Assigned In Items
I has assigned rdf to the RSS page itself, then to the asset listing I'm trying to RSS, but still no result in preview.
[quote]Found in system management -> log name -> error: (/packages/news/page_rss_feed/page_rss_feed.inc:523) - Required Tag rdf:about Is Not Assigned In Items
I has assigned rdf to the RSS page itself, then to the asset listing I’m trying to RSS, but still no result in preview.[/quote]
The RSS Feed page performs validation of the RSS before providing output. The “rdf:about” tag must be present when using RSS 1.0.
Please consult our News Package Documentation (available from http://matrix.squiz.net/download/documentation) for details on required tags for your RSS content type.
Some success … still a bit to go.
After reading a few other posts in forums, I changed from RSS 1 to RSS2 and now it does produce the feed.
I tested it and have it up in IGoogle looking fine - title as I want, and the 3 latest items listed in the box.
However the hyperlink is to — www.google.com/news/etc — instead of www.mysite/news/etc.
I'm sure it's a keyword problem but I've tried quite a few from the dropdown as well as from the list in the documentation.
I have combinations of 2 such as:
news_item : asset_name : title
news_item : %link_url% : link
I have combined them in one set, and I have had it with no keywords at all.
Result is the same with google being linked rather than my site.
I have been through the documentation and done as suggested adding keywords:
Asset Type Keyword Tag Represented Delete?
news_item asset_name title
news_item asset_attribute_summary description
news_item asset_url link
news_item asset_url guid
but still with the urls being pointed to google.
This is REALLY frustrating!
Now that's odd.
Turn on the computer this morning, open my igoogle page, and the links are now pointing to the right place … everything working fine.
"Sleep on it" perhaps should be the last line of each section of the documentation.