By billtron on

I am trying to figure out how to create a single view that incorporates blog entries and items from the various news aggregator categories that I have. I would like to have them all sorted according to published date, so that everything is listed in chronological order. This means that rss items that are found in between the publication of two blog entries will appear in between those two blog entries in the feed.

Is this possible? As far as I can tell, I can't include news aggregated items in a view. I can do it easily in yahoo pipes, but I would like to solve the problem in drupal. My apologies if the answer is simple; I am still learning.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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JacobSingh’s picture

JacobSingh commented

+1

sunflower-1’s picture

sunflower-1 commented

Also looking for a way with views but nothing like the news_page of drupal 4.7 :/

matt v.’s picture

matt v. commented

You might want to give the SimpleFeed module a try. It's still listed as "NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION USE," but I believe it will let you combine feeds and blog posts the way you've described.

I'm not sure about the sorting because SimpleFeed doesn't expose the Feed Item's creation time, but you may be able to get a close approximation by updating feeds frequently and sorting by "Node: Created Time."

For what it's worth, there is more information about the module on the author's site.

peterdeitz’s picture

peterdeitz commented

Have you thought about inserting an RSS-view into the news aggregator? That's what I'm doing.

1) Create a category in News Aggregator
2) Fill it up with RSS feeds from other websites
3) Build an RSS-view of your site's content using the Views Module
4) Add the RSS-view to the News Aggregator category