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Cablecast RSS of channel schedule. Dynamic?or Static?
I have experimented with Frontdoor>Cablecast>Extras>RSSSchedule and seen that after choosing a date window, a specific channel selection, that you can then choose a method/software to subscribe to the feed. My question is: Because I have chosen a "start date" when I generated the RSS of a cablecast schedule, is that RSS updated and changed each time I use Cablecast to add new shows to that time period? Is the RSS feed dynamic, changing as I add new shows, or is it a static snapshot of the Cablecast schedule at the moment when the feed was first generated?
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Inappropriate?Hi commtvsc,
As you mentioned, by default, the feed URL that is generated includes the StartDate parameter. For example:
http://demo.trms.com/Cablecast/Plugin...
That will pull the next 3 days (72 hours) starting from midnight on 12/12/2008. Always. So, if you request that URL 4 days from now, you'll still be getting the "past" schedule. In that sense, the default URL is static.
The good news is, you can remove the "StartDate" parameter from the querystring. This will effectively use a StartDate of "now," meaning the moment the feed is requested.
For example, if I remove the StartDate parameter, and set Days=1 as in this url:
http://demo.trms.com/Cablecast/Plugin...
The feed will pull the next 24 hours of schedule, starting from the time the feed was requested. So, right now it's almost noon CST, so that URL should show me the remaining 12 hours of schedule today, and the first 12 hours of schedule tomorrow.
Does this help at all?
-John
I’m hoping this helps
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Inappropriate?John,
This partly answers my question. Our interest is to present our schedule in a more visually aesthetic mannuer than the default web schedule link inluded in cablecast but to minimize the labor necessary to update and maintain it. Our website is a Drupal 5+ mysql database and we are experimenting with Drupal nodes or modules or WTFever they call them. Once we make the "module" and enter the appropriate cablecast schedule RSS URL address. Will we have to constantly be re-editing the module, or when somebody launches their browser and clicks on the schedule link, does that "click" generate a fresh RSS of the Day or Three Days from the moment that they clicked on the link? -
Inappropriate?The second URL will generate the "fresh" data every time it is accessed, because it doesn't have the StartDate parameter. So, you won't need to update the module over and over.
Let's say you've got programming scheduled every hour on the hour. If you "click" the second url at 12:55pm, the first entry will be the 1pm show. If you hit it again at 1:55pm, the first entry will be the 2pm show, etc.
For what it's worth, there are some good topics about integrating Cablecast and Drupal/php on this forum, including sample code from Ray who has done some amazing work on tying them together. Here's a particularly in-depth one: http://gsfn.us/t/oed
-John
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