as far as i can tell, there is no easy way to link from the feed node to its feed items. Or is there a way to use the views module to get a view of all the feed items from a particular feed? Other than creating a unique category for each feed, is there a way to give feed items a identifier so they can be grouped together?
Also, it would be nice if there was a description field in the Feed node, so it could be used as an end-user viewable node.
Other than that, this module works great and I find it much more useful than leech. Thanks.
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Comment #1
Ashraf Amayreh commentedOther than creating a category for every feed. I don't think there is an alternative. But linking to it from the feed node seems like a good idea. I'll study it and try to implement it soon. Thanks :-)
Comment #2
Ashraf Amayreh commentedunassigning this until I start working on it
Comment #3
physiotek commentedi was expecting the module to work this way :/
Comment #4
ron collins commentedthis problem is partially solved in 5.x-4.0.
you can now create a view that displays the items from a particular feed. you do that by adding the new views argument called "Parent Feed Node ID" to a view. there is an export of my view attached.
there is still no simple way to link from the feed node to the items but now you can create a link manually in the feed node body to http://baseurl/viewname/feednid which is better than nothing but still a pain in the ass when you have a lot of feeds.
a better solution to this is to have the aggregation module create the view below and then a views field that is aware of the view and which links to the feeds items.
i have changed the version number for this bug and it's priority. personally, i feel this is the kind of problem that makes a module like this too difficult for many people to use and should be labeled critical by those wanting to see it become more popular.
Comment #5
ron collins commentedthis also needs to work in reverse. there should be a way to link to the parent from the items. if someone is reading an item from feed-X, and they want to see more from that feed, it is difficult for themers to make that possible.
i believe that currently, the user access permissions are such that if you can see the feed node, you can edit it. there should be a "view feed" permission.
Comment #6
dean.p commentedAlthough I'm in Drupal 6.x some of what I've done may or may not give some clues to achieving this in D5
Some initial steps are here http://drupal.org/node/342840
Additional Notes:
In the feed item, the $node->fid is the nid of the parent feed
In addition, you would create a list or menu of feeds. I would customize the output of the list/menu link to include a url and the nid as an argument. The landing page (say http://www.mydomain.com/feed-item-list) can then just be a page view which will list all feed items where the custom cck field matches the argument (i.e. http://www.mydomain.com/feed-item-list/123).