I want users to be able to syndicate their external blogs on our drupal site. I'm totally confused by the instructions in the README file and unclear how to explain to users how to add/refresh/manage their feed(s).
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I think it's mainly the template stuff -- is there somewhere I read more about this functionality? Are my users going to have to deal with this?

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epe commented

I think I'm looking for the same thing.
There should be an easy way for users to submit their personal rss feed(s) to a leech enabled drupal site.
One solution might be to provide one or several field(s) in the user profile, where users can add their rss feeds. (might be one blog and one foto album feed). when a new rss feed is entered into these profile-fields they should be turned into a new leech node.
users should be able to get to that leech node from their profile and administer their feed items (e.g. delete a node that shouldn't be syndicated).

(since I'm rather new to drupal, I still have to find out which is the easiest way to get that done and would be thankful for suggestions)

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micheleannj commented

My solution has been to switch to simplefeed... it really is simple.

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alex_b commented

You could make your node edit form simpler. Dedicate a node type for leech and theme its node edit form: http://drupal.org/node/61481#comment-102218

You can basically strip out all form fields except the URL field and the title field.

Be aware that some fields need to be on the node form. So you usually want to CSS hide form elements rather than not render them at all.

alex

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alex_b commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)