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.

@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! :)

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.

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

+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?

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

Hmmm, shame we can't do this yet. Would be great even if we could just pick from a list of Views with (a) Feed display(s) to attach to the Panel page. At the moment I'm doing this with drupal_add_feed() in hook_init().

Hello, I'm rather new to Drupal and this is the closest description I have seen to what I want to do, but I'm not entirely sure this is the right place to ask.

Suppose I had a 3-column mini-panel or panel. And a Taxonomy vocab of "category" and terms under that. Also using images with stories that will be assigned a category name.

I'd love to be able to have the teasers, and image thumbnails, of last three stories stories added appear, 1 to each pane.

So that all a content editor need do is add a story of that category and it would then appear in the panel pushing out the oldest story from that category.

Is this the type of thing you are talking about? I've been pounding away searching for mods to do this.. sounds like some combo of views and *something* to me.. but cannot figure it out.

Thanks.

I understand that several people are excited about this feature. Since Merlin has suggested that a module could enable this through Ctools, I'm going go close this issue won't fix, and encourage anyone interested in this to attempt Merlins suggestion for a solution.