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support on "Issue with sorting based on a date in title"

support — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:19:45 +0000

Hi,
unfortunately we can't come up with any good workaround for this case. You can try setting the dates at the beginning of the Title in YYYY-MM-DD format, but we are not sure it will be sorted the way you need it.

laflibrary on "Issue with sorting based on a date in title"

laflibrary — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:09:27 +0000

The source I need to use for the feed for a digest I want to create is flawed;the rss feed is generated by the civic software used for all of our city websites and I cannot change how the feed itself is set up. (You can see it here at http://www.cityoflafayette.com/support/newsflash7.xml). The dilemma is that the news module does not contain actual date fields, but our library needs to use that module to promote events. So, since there is no date field, the date of an upcoming event is manually added to the title field. Since the resulting rss feed has no date field (I assume), when I build a feed.informer digest I can sort by title, or created date, etc., but the resulting feed isn't helpful for our customers as the events aren't shown in a logical order of when they are happening. Given that we can't control the module or the feed, but we DO have control over what we choose to write in Title and Description of each new item, do you have some suggestions for a workaround so that we can have the display order approximate the actual upcoming order of events? For instance, if we consistently added dates at the beginning of the Title or Desc/Summary fields, could that info be used by Feed.Informer as a way to have a default sort by event date rather than date the item was posted? Sorry to be long-winded, but it is a tricky problem! Thanks!

laflibrary on "Using Enclosure instead of First Image tag"

laflibrary — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:24:22 +0000

Thanks for doing this! I will play around and see if this will work. I really appreciate it!

admin on "Using Enclosure instead of First Image tag"

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:17:15 +0000

It can be done, please take a look at this:
http://feed.informer.com/share/EXH2QXRCOA

All I've done is replace this part of per-item template code:
%FIRSTIMAGEFROMDESCRIPTION%
with this:
<img src="%ENCLOSUREURL%" class="feed_informer_first_image" />

The only problem arises when an item has no enclosure.

The scrollbar is not a part of the original widget, but it also can be done easily by wrapping your widget into container DIV with CSS property "overflow" set to "scroll" (more about it: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_overflow.asp ).

I hope this helps.

laflibrary on "Using Enclosure instead of First Image tag"

laflibrary — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:46:34 +0000

Hi. I am interested in making a feed like this one: http://feed.informer.com/share/NXXAAWDRVO (although I will make it narrower, around 400px wide, and remove dates).

This is my source feed: http://www.cityoflafayette.com/support/newsflash7.xml

The problem is, the source feed uses an enclosure tag so neither %FIRSTIMAGEFROMDESCRIPTION% or %FIRSTIMAGEFROMCONTENT% template tags seem to work; so, when I have tried to adapt the code from the above feed, it doesn't work.

If I just use the templates provided, the only one where the image shows is the Flickr slide feed.

In the example feed, http://feed.informer.com/share/NXXAAWDRVO, I like that the images are displaying as thumbnails, and I like the presence of the scrollbar. I think if I can get that basic style to work, then I can figure out how to modify other aspects of the appearance.

I appreciate your help! I am down to the wire in trying to decided whether to embed feed.informer or use a different feed service that is easier for me to style but doesn't show pictures either!

Thanks.