Hi
I'd like to have my department site follow the news on my project and personal sites.
1) What are the URL's to the feeds of OpenScholar sites?
2) How do I control the timing of the reader's updates (is there a "check now?" button)
3) How do I control what information comes through the feed (News and Event updates but not changes to Bio).
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I see how to enable the department site's reader by setting Build/Apps/Reader to public.
However I don't know what URL to give the Add Feed in order to start following a project or personal site.
Princeton claims that the content is available, but they don't specify the URL at which it is available:
http://scholar.princeton.edu/help/vsitehelp/Reader-feature
Can I have feeds for the content that I create?
You already do. The content that you create will automatically be available in an RSS feed format for others to subscribe to.
I'd also like to know how often the reader checks the feeds it is following and how to control that timing. Also, is there a "check now" button?.
I'd also like to know how to control what information I am following on the project and personal sites. For example, I want the department site to follow the news and events of the project and personal sites but don't want to know if the personal site updates their biography.
Thanks!
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URL for event, media_gallery and news of the project site
I was able to find the URL for a feed from my project site but I am still not able to activate the connection to the reader on my department site.
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I placed a Site RSS Feed onto my project site and configured the "Content Types to Display" to show Event, Media Gallery and News.
Clicking on the icon took me to a page whose URL was:
http://www.openscholarsite/project/feed/event%2Bmedia_gallery%2Bnews
Very good stuff. Looks like a feed URL to me.
I copied the URL and returned to my department site.
On the Reader page I added a feed with the "Add Feed" and pasted the URL in place.
Returning to the project site to create some content to feed, I created a new "Add News" on the News page and a new "Add Event" on the Calendar.
Returning to the department site I expected to see some activity on the Reader page, but there was none. Somehow the connection is not activated.
What have I left out?
Thanks!
Feeds, Flags and Aggregator
I discovered several modules that seem applicable that were not activated. The department Reader still doesn't see new News from the project site but perhaps this is the right direction.
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I have enabled the following modules:
Aggregator
Tracker
Trigger
Flag
Flag Action
Feeds
Feeds Admin UI
Feeds News
Feeds XPath Parser
Have I missed anything crucial?
Should I enable all the modules that come with OpenScholar?
Why don't they all come enabled? Is there a penalty?
Thanks!
What version of OS are you
What version of OS are you running ? Are you the administrator of the install or just have a site there.
OpenScholar 3.5 and Drupal 7.22
I'm the administrator of the install and have a second login which has three sites; a department site, a project site and a personal site.
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Thanks for your detailed
Thanks for your detailed explanation !
The rss are exposed in differente paths , e.g.
News: http://chemistry.harvard.edu/news.rss
events: http://chemistry.harvard.edu/calendar/rss.xml
However I'd use this approach when displaying external feeds in your site. I suggest you make personal sites(s) and project site(s) be subsites of your department site. Then in the depratment site use "list of posts" widget to display news/events/etc from subsites.
does that help ?
Thanks !
/news.rss vs /feed/news
My reader still doesn't pick up /news.rss nor /calendar/rss.xml.
Is there something basic I need to enable in order for the reader to begin reading?
Also, what is the difference between /news.rss and /feed/news
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I notices that /news.rss and /feed/news take me to pages with the same information; the only difference being the title is News for the former and SiteFeed for the latter.
/calendar/rss.xml takes me to a page with an actual calendar on my site but takes me to a list of events on the Harvard site (your link).
/feed/event takes me to an page with the events in a form similar to the news. However on the Harvard site these are different events than are listed for /calendar/rss.xml.
/feed/link has a list of links
/feed/media_event has links to galleries and what must be teaser photos
/feed/page has links to pages along with teaser information.
/feed/person has links to people along with teaser information
My site's RSS Subscribe serves up combinations of these /feed/items separated by %2B; for example /feed/event%2Bnews%2Bperson
Is this a different way to get the same data?
Is one way recommended for some reason?
What is the reason?
Thanks!
Strategy for organization
Subsites ...
I did not even notice those before.
What are the advantages to creating the project and personal sites as subsites rather than as non-subsite sites? Is it something so important that it just should be done?
Is it possible to change a non-subsite site to be a subsite or at least to transfer the data?
Also I notice there is no department subsite. Do higher level department type entities refer to lower level structures as projects then? Or just as links? For example, following your earlier example, how does www.harvard.edu relate to www.chemistry.harvard.edu?
Thanks!