[TYPO3-english] rss feed shows no news

[Prakash]

J. Bakshi wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have a running tt_news installation (2.5.2) and typo3 4.2.  page id 66
> is the page where I have tt_news installed with list view. To get the
> rss feed I have enabled the rss feed option inbuilt in the tt_news.
> 
> 
> To do that I added the following
> 
> ---------------------------
> Constant
> --------------------------
> ### Configure tt_news to display the xml template
> ### Page that contains the News List
> xmlnewsfeed_id = 66
> 
> ### RSS Setup
> plugin.tt_news  {
>    displayXML {
>       
>        xmlTitle = Thanal RSS
>        xmlLink = http://192.168.1.1/mysite/
>        xmlDesc = Exploring thanal
>        xmlLang = en
>        xmlIcon = fileadmin/rss_icon.jpeg
>       
>        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 = 500| ... | 1
>        subheader_stdWrap.ifEmpty.field = bodytext
>        xmlLastBuildDate = 1
>   }
> }
> 
> -------------------------------------
> setup
> -------------------------------------
> 
> # ------------- RSS News Plugin ------------------------------
> ### Header
> page.headerData.500 = TEXT
> 
> ########## this is in a single line ####################
> page.headerData.500.value = <link rel="alternate"
> type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS-Feed" 
> href="http://192.168.1.1/thanal/index.php?id=66&type=100" />
> 
> # ------------- This enables the xml news feed ---------------------
> 
> xmlnews = PAGE
> xmlnews {
>   typeNum = 100
>   10 >
>   10 < plugin.tt_news
>   10.pid_list = 66
>   10.categorySelection = 37
>  
>   # show only selected categories
>   10.categoryMode = 1
>   10.defaultCode = XML
> 
>   config {
>     disableAllHeaderCode = 1
>     additionalHeaders = Content-type:text/xml
>     no_cache = 1
>     xhtml_cleaning = 0
>   }
> 
> }
> 
> ### RSS 0.91 feed ###
> rss091Feed < xmlnews
> rss091Feed {
>    typeNum = 101
>    10.displayXML.xmlFormat = rss091
> }
> 
> ### Atom 0.3 feed ###
> atom03Feed < xmlnews
> atom03Feed {
>    typeNum = 102
>    10.displayXML.xmlFormat = atom03
> }
> 
> ### Atom 1.0 feed ###
> atom1Feed < xmlnews
> atom1Feed {
>    typeNum = 103
>    10.displayXML.xmlFormat = atom1
> }
> 
> ### RDF feed ###
> rdfFeed < xmlnews
> rdfFeed {
>    typeNum = 104
>    10.displayXML.xmlFormat = rdf
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Now if I visit page 66 there is the list views of the news *BUT* if I
> add type=100 like  ?id=66&type=100  I get the rss feed with out any news .
> could some one give me any clue please ? please note the static
> templates are already included in the template section.
> 
> Thanks

J. Bakshi,

When using RSS, you need to specify the "Starting point" for the 
tt_news. This is usually the uid of the sysFolder / page where your 
tt_news articles are stored.

for example:
plugin.tt_news.pid_list = 1024

Regards,
Prakash A Bhat