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Hello,
I am having a difficult time setting up my RSS feed on a dynamic bulletin. Basically we need the feed to display a Channel Title, a Category, 10 Items, and then repeat numerous times. The output on Carousel should look something like this:
Channel Title
Category
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4
Item 5
Item 6.....
Category
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3....
Category
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4... ect ect
It was under my assumption that the RSS file should be set up as follows so this would work in Tightrope:
<channel>
<title></title>
<category></category>
<item><title></title></item> x10
<category></category>
<item><title></title></item> x10
<category></category>
<item><title></title></item> x10
By setting it up the above way, I figured making a template with the following fields in Tightrope would work:
#ChannelTitle#
#ChannelCategories#
#ItemTitle#
and this should repeat the items until the next category, in which it would display that, right? Unfortunately this does not work, and I CANNOT figure out why, or figure out any way for it to work for that matter. It just fills the #ChannelCategories# field with that exact text, not the actual categories, and only displays ONE item, then repeats #ChannelCategories# with an item after that.
Anyone have any suggestions? </channel>
I am having a difficult time setting up my RSS feed on a dynamic bulletin. Basically we need the feed to display a Channel Title, a Category, 10 Items, and then repeat numerous times. The output on Carousel should look something like this:
Channel Title
Category
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4
Item 5
Item 6.....
Category
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3....
Category
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4... ect ect
It was under my assumption that the RSS file should be set up as follows so this would work in Tightrope:
<channel>
<title></title>
<category></category>
<item><title></title></item> x10
<category></category>
<item><title></title></item> x10
<category></category>
<item><title></title></item> x10
By setting it up the above way, I figured making a template with the following fields in Tightrope would work:
#ChannelTitle#
#ChannelCategories#
#ItemTitle#
and this should repeat the items until the next category, in which it would display that, right? Unfortunately this does not work, and I CANNOT figure out why, or figure out any way for it to work for that matter. It just fills the #ChannelCategories# field with that exact text, not the actual categories, and only displays ONE item, then repeats #ChannelCategories# with an item after that.
Anyone have any suggestions? </channel>
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Inappropriate?Sean, Carousel does not loop through the RSS categories fields like you want. It only loops through the <item> tags. It will display the category that an item belongs too, just as you describe.
*Possible Solution 1*
If you are making the RSS feed yourself, you might remove the category tag and put your 'category' as the first <item>. Then put the rest of the 10 <item>s. So you will have 11 per set. Then tell Carousel to display 11 items per page.
*Possible solution 2*
If it is OK to have 1 Carousel page per set of 10 items, then leave your feed the same. If you don't want the #ChannelCategories# field to repeat in the list, set the block's name to 'HeaderCategories'. Carousel will not repeat blocks that start with 'Header'. Then tell Carousel to display 10 items per page.
I hope this helps! Let me know.</item></item></item> -
Inappropriate?JJ --
This makes sense, as we just figured out the first solution on our own. HOWEVER, there is something not right about how it's displaying. We've set the spacing of each item to 1, but there is a huge gap (maybe 2 fields worth) between the Item ( in which we're displaying the category) and the actual items list. And the gaps between items are larger than they should be.
And what happens in the case when we need to format the Categories (set as title tags) in a different format than the other titles. Is this possible?
I’m indifferent
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Inappropriate?I think you should try option 2. Can you also export and email me your bulletin. And maybe a copy of the RSS feed. Then I can teke a look. Or post a screenshot of the bulletin.
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Inappropriate?The issue with option 2 is that we are going to have a good amount of bulletins, and this is going to be a constantly updated feed, so it would turn out if we seperated each page for category, we would have about 40 constantly updated RSS feeds.
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Inappropriate?Can you tell me how to make a template that reads multiple items? Do I just list #ItemTitle# #ItemDescription# multiple times?
I’m needing answers.
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Inappropriate?Also, the NYT image feed appears to be formatted differently media:content url.... See the link http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/Home.... How do I format this? Is it still #ItemImageURL#? Is it even possible?
thanks
I’m tired of RSS feeds!
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