Title: Rss Feed
Description: Could LawsonTalk provide an RSS feed
Phil Feller - May 5, 2006 04:41 PM (GMT)
Does Invision Power Board provide a way to create an RSS feed from the most recent posts? This would make it easier to track updates, because manuy browsers and email clients provide integrated RSS readers. There is the option for email notification, but this only reports new replies, not new topics, and must be set topic-by-topic.
My hopes were briefly raised when I saw that the LawsonTalk site announces that there is an associated RSS feed. Unfortunately this is a link to the RSS feed for Nogalis' lawadm.com site.
By the way, this RSS stands for Rich Site Summary (http://foldoc.org/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=rss&action=Search&sourceid=Mozilla-search), and should not be confused with Requisition Self Service.
lawson - May 5, 2006 05:23 PM (GMT)
Really Simple Syndication (RSS), is not available for LawsonTalk.
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| My hopes were briefly raised when I saw that the LawsonTalk site announces that there is an associated RSS feed |
I am not sure where you saw this "announcement" pointed out on the LawsonTalk site but please let us know so we can remove it. IPB doesn't support RSS as it would completely work around their business model of serving ads which we've opted to block for our members.
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| There is the option for email notification, but this only reports new replies, not new topics, and must be set topic-by-topic |
There actually is a feature to do this as well. You can subscribe to a forum and then you get notification of new messages that are posted to it.
You can also e-mail us directly if you like to lawsontalk@gmail.com to suggest new features or learn about existing ones.
Phil Feller - May 5, 2006 06:17 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (lawson @ May 5 2006, 09:23 AM) |
| I am not sure where you saw this "announcement" pointed out on the LawsonTalk site but please let us know so we can remove it. |
Every page of the site includes:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href="http://www.lawadm.com/rss.xml">
RSS-aware browsers pick this up and show that there is an RSS feed.
lawson - May 5, 2006 06:24 PM (GMT)
Oh yes, I believe that was Tan's initial attempt at getting the an RSS feed setup for news but IPB blocked it. It should be removed now. And that was more of an incoming feed reader than anything else.
You made it sound like someone made an announcement. Thanks for pointing it out though, not many members would bother to go through the site code to figure out what is and what isn't working.
Phil Feller - May 5, 2006 06:41 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (lawson @ May 5 2006, 10:24 AM) |
| It should be removed now. And that was more of an incoming feed reader than anything else. |
It is indeed gone. Thanks. Now that you mention it, incoming RSS feeds (like LawsonGuru has) might be a nice feature, and ought to be a snap to code in PHP.
| QUOTE (lawson @ May 5 2006, 10:24 AM) |
| You made it sound like someone made an announcement. Thanks for pointing it out though, not many members would bother to go through the site code to figure out what is and what isn't working. |
If it weren't for the big RSS icon in my browser, I probably never would have noticed.
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| There actually is a feature to do this as well. You can subscribe to a forum and then you get notification of new messages that are posted to it. |
Thanks; I hadn't noticed that feature. It's still not as good as being notified of all changes, but it's better than having to do it topic-by-topic.