Rss feed for Panel

Interesting. This would be some sort of exotic aggregator of different stuff on your site, then spit out as a feed.

I'm not sure it's doable though. And I bet this will not make it into the first release of Panels 2. To make the issue queue a bit lighter, I'm postponing this feature.

This is a really cool idea. This is also not an easy thing to do.

@merlin: it would require you to have a per-content type setting, i.e. whether the content type plugin itself can provide you with the chunk of the feed (e.g. in case of Views this would be necessary), or if just the entire content of a pane should be used as an RSS item. Plus you'd have to be able to define which panes are considered static content and should not be included. Even if you would do smart defaults (i.e. each content type plugin specifies whether it should be included in the RSS feed or not), you would still have a fair amount of configuration work to do, so usability-wise I'm not sure this will be very good.

But indeed, Drupal is really moving towards small bits of data (CCK fields, Panels' ability to aggregate content) and dynamically coupling them together (Panels' relationships, contexts). Providing that as an RSS feed is just another kind of output (the first being HTML obviously). Exciting stuff! :)

Hi guys,

Can I just +1 one this idea and put it back on your radar. It would be an awesome feature! I'm looking to do something similar for the home page of www.whattalent.com, which is how I found this issue. Don't know if any progress was made? I guess you're hard at the 6.x-2.x-dev release for now.

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Heh, your timing is...interesting given that I just updated the project page to announce we wouldn't be adding any new features for a while :) But the +1 is fine. I'm marking it back as postponed, however, as I'm doing for all other feature requests atm.

And, unfortunately, merlin's point in #2 is still true. Very cool idea. Very not easy to do. As far as I can think, it would require an API change and some wacky thinking about content type plugins. I don't know much about how RSS works, either, but I'd also be concerned about it being potential non-trivial in terms of performance hits.

Ha, sorry about that - I browsed in another way so didn't see the project page. I guess it would be complex to capture every panel and create a feed from it. The ideal would be to have a feed management page where you can include/exclude the content of all the panels on a page from that page's feed, and also juggle the order of content (assuming all panels have new content) either by date or by panel, by date, etc.

But my main requirement is simply to be able to amalgamate feeds from a number of views embedded in my panel page and attach that feed to my panel page. I could probably hack it by making a custom RSS feed with the Views module and putting the link in a tpl file. Dirty, but it would work. If I get this working, I'll post an interim HOWTO for people interested in this. =)

my +1 interest in this feature;
though what i'd like is a feed amalgamating all the panes in a panel
my idea is to be able to put a bunch of items in the right column of a two column setup, then whenever I wanted move them some into the left hand column, change the order, etc... and have the feed reflect the new left hand column ... as Wim pointed out it's 'just' another output format for the natural drupal process of gathering up bits of data from the database into one 'page'.

-joseph

subscribing

+1 for this.

As an alternate (hopefully easier) solution, what about just allowing any panel to specify an RSS link, and we could build a single view that effectively includes the information from the various panes?

Cleaning up the issue queue.

SUbscribing, I thing this would be an absolute cool idea!
Since it is not done yet, I set it on active on 6.3, ok?
greetings, Martijn