[TYPO3] tt_news with RSS

[Dan Osipov]

I know I had to highly modify the default setup from the manual to get 
it to work. Someone should really fix it for 3.0.0
Try defining the category and PID info in this section:
 > # Configure tt_news to display the xml template
 > plugin.tt_news {
 >   displayXML {

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Lamb, Brian wrote:
> Kind of long but...
> 
> plugin.tt_news {
>   archiveMode = year
>   useHRDates = 1
>   archiveTitleCObject.10 {
>     if.value.date = Y
>     if.equals.data = GPvar:tx_ttnews|year
>     strftime = %Y
>     wrap = |
>   }
>   archiveTitleCObject.20 {
>     if.value.date = Y
>     if.equals.data = GPvar:tx_ttnews|year
>     strftime = %Y
>   }  
> }
> 
> 
> plugin.tt_news {
>   archiveMode = year
>   useHRDates = 1
>   archiveTitleCObject.10 {
>     if.value.date = Y
>     if.equals.data = GPvar:tx_ttnews|year
>     strftime = %Y
>     wrap = |
>   }
>   archiveTitleCObject.20 {
>     if.value.date = Y
>     if.equals.data = GPvar:tx_ttnews|year
>     strftime = %Y
>   }  
> }
> 
> # Configure tt_news to display the xml template 
> plugin.tt_news {
>   displayXML {
>     # rss091_tmplFile = EXT:tt_news/res/rss_0_91.tmpl
>     # rdf_tmplFile = EXT:tt_news/res/rdf.tmpl
>     # atom03_tmplFile = EXT:tt_news/res/atom_0_3.tmpl
>     # atom1_tmplFile = EXT:tt_news/res/atom_1_0.tmpl
>     rss2_tmplFile = fileadmin/template/main/rss_templates/rss_2.tmpl
> 
>     # possibile values: rss091 / rss2 / rdf / atom03 / atom1  
>     xmlFormat = rss2
> 
>     xmlTitle = My site: Press Releases
>     xmlLink = http://www.mysite.org/cms/rss_debug/?type=100
>     xmlDesc = 
>     xmlLang = en
>     title_stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
>     title_stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars.preserveEntities = 1
>     subheader_stdWrap.stripHtml = 1
>     subheader_stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
>     subheader_stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars.preserveEntities = 1
>     subheader_stdWrap.crop = 100 | ... | 1
>     subheader_stdWrap.ifEmpty.field = bodytext
>     xmlLastBuildDate = 1
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> ## This enables the xml news feed
> xmlnews = PAGE
> xmlnews {
>   typeNum = 100
> 
>   10 >
>   10 < plugin.tt_news
>   10.pid_list >
>   10.pid_list = {$plugin.tt_news.pid_list}
>   10.singlePid = {$plugin.tt_news.singlePid}
>   10.defaultCode = XML
> 
>   config {
>     disableAllHeaderCode = 1
>     additionalHeaders = Content-type:text/xml
>     no_cache = 1
>     xhtml_cleaning = 0
>   }
> }
> ## To get an additional RDF feed add the following
> rdffeed = PAGE
> rdffeed < xmlnews
> rdffeed {
>  10.displayXML.xmlFormat = rdf
>  10.displayXML.xmlIcon = fileadmin/feed_icon_88x31.gif
>  typeNum = 101
> }
> 
> ## To get an additional Atom 0.3 feed add the following
> atom03feed = PAGE
> atom03feed < xmlnews
> atom03feed {
>  10.displayXML.xmlFormat = atom03
>  typeNum = 102
> }
> ## To get an additional Atom 1.0 feed add the following
> atom1feed = PAGE
> atom1feed < xmlnews
> atom1feed {
>   10.displayXML.xmlFormat = atom1
>   typeNum = 103
> }
> 
> Note that this is basically the setup from the tt_news manual. 
> 
> Thanks in advance. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: typo3-english-bounces at lists.netfielders.de
> [mailto:typo3-english-bounces at lists.netfielders.de] On Behalf Of Dan
> Osipov
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:31 AM
> To: typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de
> Subject: Re: [TYPO3] tt_news with RSS
> 
> It would seem you're missing some configuration to make the tt_news RSS 
> feed work properly. Did you define a category? What about a storage
> page?
> 
> Can you post your TypoScript code, so that we can find an omission?
> 
> Dan Osipov
> Calkins Media
> http://danosipov.com/blog/
> 
> Lamb, Brian wrote:
>> I'm having a little difficulty with RSS feeds on my site. I think it
> is related to my understanding of how it should work as opposed to how
> it actually works. 
>> For example, suppose I create page id=10. On this page I have a
> tt_news list item that displays all tt_news items flagged with tt_news
> category "Topic A". 
>> Now I thought whatever shows up on page id=10 will show up in the RSS
> feed. 
>> However, it seems only tt_news items created on page id=10 will
> populate the RSS feed. Additionally, it seems any tt_news item created
> on that page will show up in the RSS feed regardless of category. 
>> This opens the door to several questions:
>>
>> 1) Is it possible to create an RSS feed that mirrors the display of a
> tt_news list element?  
>> 2) Is it possible to populate said RSS feed with preexisting data? The
> ones I set up only add new items, not those already present. 
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