The current system appears to use the <description> tag, and as a result, it's truncating some of my information. The feed I'm trying to use has the information I want between <content:encoded> tags.
How do I change this in the HTML edit window?
Thanks
(cool svc, btw)
Unfortunately, no. This is something that I want to change, but when Feed Digest was first designed (over 2 years ago now), for reasons of efficiency only one type of "description" field was to be pulled out of any feed items. There's a hierarchy for this, so if description is missing, then it'll use content:encoded.. but currently I think description is higher in the hierarchy.. so it'll prefer to use description if it's present.
In theory this should probably be the other way around, but it's not something I want to change in the existing version due to the tens of thousands of established digests that are expecting it to work as it has done.
The idea for the future is to merely keep verbatim copies of what's in a feed, and then let you use the special tags to specifically choose what you want to show.. but currently it doesn't work like that and mushes everything down to an efficient, but less dynamic, processed version of items.
By the way, it sounds like you know what you're doing, but in case you do have more info in <description> (or can put it there), you can change the truncation options for descriptions in the digest template code.
No way do I know what I'm doing... Atm, I'm seriously lost in a sea of feeds...
Ok, next question...is there a way to assign a graphic to each feed that I add to my digest? If I can't get content encoded, i'll settle for manually adding an image to each feed...please tell me this can be done :(
ETA
In the "Per-Item Template" HTML editor, currently the changes I make affect every feed item the same way.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to modify elements of each feed (by adding a specific image) by each feed so it's easy to recognize visually.
We're dealing with this over e-mail, but yes, you kinda can if you're prepared to hack with CSS :)
Look at this digest:
http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/CYX9C9AVI8.html
The way it works is each item is in a DIV that has a class of source%SOURCEID% .. I then have CSS directives set up to do different styling for DIVs with different classes, say.. source123 source22 source5, etc. You have to add the %SOURCEID% stuff into your code, view the output and then work from there.
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