Feed manager help

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12/25/2009 9:32:43 AM
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Feed manager help

Hey,

I don't know what I"m doing wrong, but the results that I expect are not the same as what I see.
This is what I do:
I take the rss from my forum (http://www.rsv4aprilia.net/Forums/RSS.aspx?mid=15&pageid=9), create a feed manager on my home page
and put the link to the rss in the feed manager. I was hoping to create a "latests forum threads" on my home page. But what I see on my home page is totally different than what is visible via the rss link.
Properties of the feed manager:
- use excerpt, lenght 100
- Feed list cache in min: 10
- Entry cache time in min: 10
- Feed list columns: 1
- Show posts: 90
- Max posts per feed: 10 (but I only see 5 posts ;()
- Items per page: 15 (but where are they?)

I tried it on the demo site and I got the same results, so I guess I'm doing something wrong or expect something that isn't.
Can someone help me with this?

Thanks

Stef

1/2/2010 5:42:34 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

I've put it on my to do list to look into this soon. It seems like if the feed itself looks correct then it must be an issue in feed manager.

One possible issue is if you have the feed manager configured to sort ascending (which makes sense when aggregating events from Event Calendar Pro) it may not make sense if other feeds are included which are intended to sort descending.

Best,

Joe

1/2/2010 7:31:17 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

Joe,

I have tried everything, loose the excerpt, no caching, ... and it stays the same. And the sort method isn't changed so not ascending.
Thanks for looking at it if you find the time for it.

Stef
 

1/2/2010 10:52:05 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

Joe,

I checked the log file and I see this:

2010-01-02 05:45:51,056 ERROR mojoPortal.Web.FeedUI.FeedCache - There was a problem trying to read the feed for url http://www.rsv4aprilia.net/Forums/RSS.aspx?mid=15&pageid=9. Ignoring.
System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at Argotic.Common.SyndicationEncodingUtility.CreateWebResponse(Uri source, ICredentials credentials, IWebProxy proxy)
at Argotic.Common.SyndicationEncodingUtility.CreateSafeNavigator(Uri source, ICredentials credentials, IWebProxy proxy, Encoding encoding)
at Argotic.Syndication.GenericSyndicationFeed.Load(Uri source, ICredentials credentials, IWebProxy proxy, SyndicationResourceLoadSettings settings)
at Argotic.Syndication.GenericSyndicationFeed.Create(Uri source, ICredentials credentials, IWebProxy proxy, SyndicationResourceLoadSettings settings)
at Argotic.Syndication.GenericSyndicationFeed.Create(Uri source)
at mojoPortal.Web.FeedUI.FeedCache.GetRssFeedEntries(Int32 moduleId, Guid moduleGuid, Int32 entryCacheTimeout, Int32 maxDaysOld, Int32 maxEntriesPerFeed, Boolean enableSelectivePublishing)

Don't know why there would be a problem to read it, since going  to the page doesn't give any error...

Stef

1/2/2010 11:01:41 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

Are you seeing a lot of those errors?

Possibly the DNS server used by the web server doesn't resolve it correctly. One way around that is to create a feedburner url for the feed then consume the feedburner url.

But you said it does show some of the feed items so it must work sometimes. Right?

Best,

Joe

1/2/2010 11:08:28 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

Yes, it works sometimes.
Like now, a new answer to a thread comes in the list. But from other threads I don't see the latests answer, while you can see that in the rss.aspx page.

Stef

1/3/2010 10:19:24 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

I figured out what the cause of this is. In order to prevent duplicates the feed manager is creating a hash based on the title and link of the feed item. Since the forum feed has replies to posts many of them have the same title and url and thus are seen as duplicates and it just updates the existing entry with the same hash rather than adding new entries.

So, the solution will be to append #post + postid to the end of each item url in the forum rss feed so that each post generates a different hash and are not seen as duplicates or updates of the same item.

Best,

Joe

1/3/2010 10:46:55 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

I just fixed this in my copy. I will post another build later today that includes this fix.

Best,

Joe

1/3/2010 12:01:21 PM
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Re: Feed manager help

 

I've uploaded a new build to the Novell Forge download page, mojoportal-mssql-deploymentfiles-20100103.zip

If you already got yesterday's build, I think the only files you need to get the fixes are mojoPortal.Web.dll and mojoPortal.Features.UI.dll

Best,

Joe

1/4/2010 6:06:37 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

Hey Joe,

I try it this evening and let you know.

Thanks
Stef

1/5/2010 2:29:32 AM
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Re: Feed manager help

Joe,

I downloaded the zip file, copied and installed it, but I still got the same.
Don't know if the demo version is already version 2.3.3.4, but I got the smae there.

Greetings
Stef

1/5/2010 1:21:59 PM
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Hi Stef,

I'm confused, it seems to me its working correctly on my machine and when I look at the demo site page you created it also seems to be working, it shows the same in the feed manager as what I see when I view the raw feed.

Please explain in detail what problem you see.

Best,

Joe

1/5/2010 3:56:51 PM
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Hey Joe,

very strange, very strange. I updated my site, tested it, cleared the cache from the feed manager and I still got the same.
Tested it on the demo site and there is was also like that. I checked my site now, and everything seems ok.

Don't know why, but hey, it is solved, so thank you for that.

Stef

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