By bernardwright on

I've been trying to get an RSS feed working on the book module but without success. Is there a RSS feed for the books?

thanks

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sillygwailo
Location Toronto, ON
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Not with just Drupal, but you can create one using the Views module. Actually you can get two kinds of feeds that relate to the book module:

  • one that's a content type feed, that is, all nodes that are of the book content type
  • an RSS feed of a book outline, so any node that belongs to a parent that you pick when creating the view

Both are views that provide a "Page" view. The first you would add as a filter "Node: Type" and choose "book", the second you would add as a filter "Book: Parent" and choose the number of the book you want the children from in the RSS feed. Make sure you choose "RSS: RSS Feed Selector" (so if you add /feed to the end of the URL, you get the RSS feed) as the argument, and that in the filters you include "Node: Published", otherwise it will include unpublished posts.

(Username formerly my full name, Richard Eriksson.)

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bd80599 commented

I was wondering how to implement the same thing - thanks for your post. Also, you help me demystify the views module - thanks again!

-Andrew
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lyallp commented

I want to have an RSS feed on pages within a book, so the RSS represents the book and as new pages are added, the RSS reflects this.

Any suggestions on how this would be arranged?

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adam_b commented

Make a view which represents the book and all its sub-nodes, and the RSS feed for that view will do what you want.

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jeedpi commented

Hi,

I faced the same issue and just solved it thanks to the community, so I thought I would share the solution here:
The recipe is to use "RSS Field", and to follow the documentation carefully.
In case you wonder, in the "core item description" field, use "content: body" to get the full article.

If you want to restrict the RSS feed to a book,
1. on the view, create a relationship: "Book: Top level book",
2. add a filter criteria: "Content: Nid="
a. put the node id of the top level page of the book
b. select the relationship you just setup

If you want to get updated articles in the RSS field:
1. As a filter criteria, use "content published" OR "content: has new content"
2. in the core item date field ("RSS field" settings), simply use "content:updated date", instead of "post date".

That's it.

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