I'm sorry for reporting 2 issues in less than 24 hours, but my website is going to depend heavily on this module.

So, I'm not sure if this is a bug or a configuration issue. My feed items are refreshed even when they haven't been updated. The details:

I have two content types:
- Feed (items as nodes)
- News, the default content type of the feed items.

One node of content type "Feed (items as nodes)":
- News_Feed

Many nodes of content type "News":
- News #1, News #2, which are being generated from News_Feed but with the "Publish" checkbox under "Publishing Options" unticked.

They are unticked because I manually edit each "News" node to add a picture and only then I publish the node.

So, if I have, say 10 "News" nodes from one RSS source, when I hit "Refresh" under "admin/content/feed" I get a message ("10 existing item(s) were updated") and these existing nodes are unpublished.

Is there any way I can configure (or code) FeedAPI to not touch the existing nodes, so that these already edited and published nodes don't get unpublished again?

I'm using the latest release (oct, 11th), Common Syndication Parser (I've also tested with Simplepie, same results), Drupal 5.2 and PHP 5.2.4.

Thanks!

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aron novak’s picture

aron novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
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Assigned: Unassigned » aron novak
Category: support » feature

Your ticket is very important, at the summer, I discussed with my mentors that do we need such an option like "update exisiting feed items" . Currently there is no option like this. I promise you to have a solution or workaround for your problem at the weekend. I assume this is a feature request, you'd like to achieve a feedapi configuration which is not possible at the moment.

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rlander commented

I guess this is a feature request then. Yes, I think it is is very important to have this kind of granular control over the generated nodes and, in my case, this is essential, since we edit the original generated node and we don't want it to be updated again. Thanks for the quick reply and if you need anything to get this featured working, just let me know.

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aron novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
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Status: Active » Fixed

It's implemented on a per-feed basis. Please be aware that i needed to modify the database structure so run the upgrade scripts before doing anything.

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rlander commented

Super cool! I'll upgrade my module and run some tests, thanks Aron! I'll let you know how everything goes.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)