getting the news aggregator to work with newsgator
I am trying to get the news aggregator to work and i am using newsgator. Below is the process that I must use to do it as outlined on the newsgator page -
To integrate NewsGator feeds with your webpage, use NewsGator's "Headlines" feature follow these steps...
How to set up Headlines
Sign into NewsGator Online
Click the "My Settings" link at the top of the page
Click 'Edit Locations'
Scroll to the bottom of the page and create a new location.
Find your new location and click the associated 'Feeds' link.
You will see all your subscriptions for NewsGator Online. Unchecked any feeds you don't want display on your web page, then click 'Update' at the bottom of the page
Now click the 'Headlines' link for your location
Select the box next to "Check here to enable Headlines settings for this location."
Find the script text (just above the 'Check here to enable Headlines settings for this location' check box) and copy the full HTML line into your website where you want the feeds to appear
If you desire, modify and format the tags within the text box
Select Save changes
I did all this but I still did not get the news feeds to appear on my website. I was wondering what the problem was.
Does drupal work with newsgator?
Chris
i also get this server error
Server Error in '/' Application.
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Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
Ok, so now i have edited my url which i put into the configure section of the news aggregator so that it is a proper url because i think that before that it had "script" written in front and at the end...
so now when i click on the symbol i get the news headlines to download in the .aspx code, but they dont actually appear on my webpage, i have to click on the symbol to see them in a dreamweaver application which reads the code.
Does this mean that the drupal news aggregator module does not work with .aspx code? AT least i am not getting the server error anymore but its still not actually appearing on my webpage.....
problem solved
I got some help from Richard Eriksson and he suggested that I use the rss feed validator at
http://feedvalidator.org/
so i pasted the rss feed into this feed validator and it told me whether it was ok or not. IT turned out that the ones i was trying to get the drupal aggregator to read were not valid, so i kept on lookiing for other rss feeds until I found one that validated in the feed validator and when this happened i put the url into the configuring box in the aggregator in drupal and it worked. it appeared on m right-hand side menu. Now all i need to start doing now that I know how to get live news to my site, is to decide what kind of news I want to have, and that means searching the web to see what is out there. One thing that it also helps to remember is to turn on the feed blocks.
thanks again for your help.
Chris
there is nothing that cannot be understood if you try hard enough