I started a help post 3 months ago on Filters and am still have issues. I updated all titles, hit LIVE option and adde "#homeschool" which I put in the descriptions. Still only finding 6 of the 8, Am trying to build similar filters so need to know how to resolve this. thanks!
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Filters (still an issue)
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Hi.
At the moment we see six instances of #homeschool in the original feed. And all of them are there in the FI digest. Could you please check and let us know?Posted 8 years ago # -
There should be 8... If you search this blog for #homeschool you will see them: http://waysthatworktestimonials.blogspot.com/ you will
The other feeds I created using similar criteria also aren't pulling up what I expect.
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Wait... may see my problem. Let me get back to you...
Posted 8 years ago # -
I updated the two missing posts: I made changes in the title and the body: all are showing up now but the title changes aren't appearing. Please clarify how and when the feeds are "reset". Per the help ticket from 3 months ago, the instructions were "Considering that to get the item of the digest updated you should change one of these three fields: Title, Link or PubDate."
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Getting closer... the preview shows 8 posts; however the feed in my webpage only shows 7: http://www.waysthatwork.com/home-schooling (It is one where the title change (~ Parent of Second Grader at Silva Valley Elementary School) is not reflected on the feed. Thanks for any clarification you can provide.
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Now we can see all 8. It just took some time to fetch changes to live.
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Good to know... Now an opposite problem. Feed for "#multiplication" is pulling two posts that it shouldn't: page http://www.waysthatwork.com/multiplication-class (see 2nd to last and 3rd to last of the posts)
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I am afraid this works how it should. The filter disregards punctuation marks and special symbols and includes all possible forms of the keyword. And those two posts in your source feed have "multiplication" without hash in description.
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I also have a few filter issues. I have to ask:are the filters limited to cause the rss readers to display from only one source at a time? I have an informer feed that is supposed to read from two sources but one of the sources needs a filter or else it will read from the entire blog and I only want it reading from one post in the blog so I create a filter for that source. Problem: when I try to use the filter for the blog it filters the post I want correctly but it stops FI from reading from the other source entirely(which doesn't need a filter. If I make a filter thats only works for the other source (its a blogspot comment section) the FI reader only pulls from THAT source and ignores the blog(its a webs.com blog) I'm left to conclude that if i use filters it will only pull from the source that uses the filter..I tried asking filter words for both sources but this causes still only the blog to appear..the blog seems to be dominant somehow no matter if I put the (blogspot comments) filter keyword first or last the filter words are supposed to be separated by spaces right?
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Hi FeedMixer,
please specify the ID of the digest you are working with so that we could reproduce the issue at our end.Posted 8 years ago # -
hmm I just posted a reply..its not showing up..did it fail or maybe pending a moderation or something?
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Ok the digest I finalized is at JLA75F6IOM but you might see that my workaround was to make 3 separate digests using the other two as sources(instead of one digest with 2 raw sources) that allowed me to create a filter for the source that needed one, but leave the other one to be raw until I ever need to put a filter on it. This is a good workaround but it seems bulky. I'd suggest that if possible FI should make a more sophisticated filter system that allows users to create multiple seperate independent filters for any given digest source (like email filters do eg gmail,yahoo) and also autogenerates a unique sub url or something for each filter within the digest. This would be useful in cases like mine preventing me from making entirely new digests from the same source url because I want to put different feed results for different items that only share the same rss url. It seems aesthetic maybe(I don't know if there is a limitation of how many digests I can make , but I think it'd be much more organized and appealing, and maybe might also fix the issue I found as well. Here are my sources so you can try to duplicate the issue: Currently each source is a separate digest that I have used as sources for the final feed. I think the forum is censoring any post I make with the raw urls so I will just give you their digest numbers.
source #1 (no filter):U8KJCNYWT6
source #2 AEYG5I4AA1
(filter terms: Groups/Team Gateway)
when I tried to use the two sources raw in a FI digest with only the filter for source #2 I would only get results from that source. When I tried to also add a filter for source#1, adding the term "test" in various ways including (Groups/Team Gateway test) I would either get NO results or just the results from one of the sources. I don't remember which combinations of filter terms caused which of those unsatifactory results at this time.Posted 8 years ago # -
The workaround you suggested is usually lying on the surface, but we don't recommend using it. Mainly because to make it work you have to embed digests you use as sources on frequently visited web pages too. Otherwise they won't get updated properly, making the data in your resulting digest obsolete. There may be other unpredictable issues and I suppose that's what happen when you are trying to implement this scheme.
As for coming up with a more sophisticated filter system, I'm not sure it's something we'd like to go for. Since it can make FI much more complicated for less experienced users. And we'd like to keep the balance.Posted 8 years ago # -
well then that leaves the solution,if any, completely up to FeedInformer technicians. For now I'll just have to use it in the way I can, with the workaround. Also thank you for the tip I'll keep tack of any problems that might crop up with the feed updating to my websites I'd like to be able to implement the widgets but lately I haven't had much luck with that on any websites except for blogger.com I'm missing something in my use of html since sites started switching to iframe..i just can[t figure out how to make it work with html. Anyway, were you able to duplicate the filter problem I described?
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Hi,
1."when I tried to use the two sources raw in a FI digest with only the filter for source #2 I would only get results from that source."
- I see two items from both feeds at the moment
2. "When I tried to also add a filter for source#1, adding the term "test" in various ways including (Groups/Team Gateway test) I would either get NO results or just the results from one of the sources. I don't remember which combinations of filter terms caused which of those unsatifactory results at this time."
- As I mentioned before we do not guarantee that this workaround with filters will work. The only advice I can give is to put quotation marks around multi-word keywords. Especially when dealing with special symbols and several keywords in one field.Posted 8 years ago #
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