By alliax on

Hello, it's not easy when there's no search feature on drupal.org

I tried to create a rss feed with views, but I can't because I miss something :

"Style RSS Feed requires a row style but the row plugin is invalid."

When I click on the Row Style, "missing style plugin" I have only:

"
Feed: How should each row in this view be styled
Node
"

And of course when I select node, nothing works as it should.

So how should I do, is it possible with D6 yet? What exactly am I missing?

Cheers,
James

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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DL’s picture

DL commented

try using google search. type in your browser search box site:drupal.org some keywords

Live hard, Ride harder

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alliax commented

Thank you, I know I do it because recently I found that very often the search function is disabled on drupal.org
I read their post that they disable it when there's too much load, but as time passes by drupal will be more and more popular, so the search function will never be back except if they upgrade the servers or something like that.
I found I prefered the internal search function of drupal to search on drupal.org, it's the same with my sites, I use adsnese google search but I always let the internal search too because it is much more powerful. (except for CCK content, google is better at this!)

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vkr11 commented

You should try http://drupalsearch.org see post at http://drupal.org/node/272208

- Victor
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adampasz commented

So what's the answer to his question? I tried a google search, and it brought me here. :(

DL’s picture

DL commented

http://drupal.org/node/83597

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adampasz’s picture

adampasz commented

That page says nothing to answer the original questions.
Does RSS work with Views in Drupal 6?
If so, what to do about the "missing plugin" error?

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superturboultra commented

Can't seem to figure this out - haven't really done a lot w/ views, but very confusing.

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superturboultra commented

At least this worked for me - on the feed view page, go to Feed Style, select "RSS Feed", then click the gears next to it to edit the options (doesn't matter what you put here). Now you will be able to go to the missing plugin area and select Node instead. Slapping my forehead on this one.

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xaccrocheur commented

Gosh, thank you

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vkr11 commented

You may want to try http://drupalsearch.org for searching Drupal next time. Here is the node with more info: http://drupal.org/node/272208

- Victor
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alech commented

I ran into the same issue. To fix it, find the setting "Row style" under "Basic Settings." Click that, and select "Node." Then save :)

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adampasz commented

Thanks, that worked for me too!

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kbell commented

I don't have an option to select under Row Style - it says "Row style: Missing style plugin".

Any ideas? And for the record, I'm an experienced Drupal and Views user, so please don't send me to the Handbook or to a basic how to use "Views" tutorial. This is a really specific question. Obviously I'm missing some piece of critical css or something somewhere, or it's not being loaded properly, but I'm not having problems elsewhere so am not sure where to go for fix.

However... this is a "User"-based feed, not a Node-based one. Can this be related to my problem somehow? I don't think so, but that's the only thing different from the other examples on this page so I thought I'd mention it. This *is* the first time I've created a User-based feed so I don't have as much experience with this type.

Sorry - I don't mean to be grumpy, but reading this thread made me a little testy.

Thanks for any help,
Kelly

-Kelly Bell
twitter: @kelly, @gothamdrupal
http://gothamcitydrupal.com

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Goldcap commented

http://drupal.org/node/286673

Doesn't look like anyone is answering this post properly, so there you go. The actual project is here:

http://drupal.org/project/views_datasource

Thanks

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heather commented

Views Datasource isn't needed. I've triple double checked this... and found this thread very misleading... and it led me down a windy path of time-wasting.

I made a handbook page, to explain how to add a user RSS feed as an example. It shows how to use an argument, and create a feed per user.

You can use it in alot of ways, in my case I had to aggregate on another site, so I only needed the bare bones.

Create a user RSS Feed using Views 2 http://drupal.org/node/314097

(hopefully people make it allthe way down the thread before they read all the stuff above!)

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anthonybruno commented

Is there any guides like this for making a basic news feed, not something that is user selected?

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heather commented

anthony, i see you've just arrived here to drupal- welcome.

i have to ask... did you /try following the steps/? this is a node-based feed. you only need to install Drupal 6 and Views 2 to follow this example.

if you're just learning drupal, please, please make a test site! make a place where you can play and experiment, and learn- without fear of reprisal.

take a risk and try following the steps. i wrote them to be very clear.

by following the steps you will know how to make a node-based RSS feed, and you can change the filters and arguments as you need to.

ALSO, while going through the steps, take notes and see if I can make it any clearer. Keep the handbook page open and start typing a comment as feedback. If all was OK, please write that too.

If you follow this exercise, you'll not only learn the views interface, and how to make an RSS feed, you'll also make a contribution to the community, and this will improve your experience using this open-source software.

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Slushatwork commented

Thank you, thank you! It's so hard to find a simple, easy tutorial that actually gets things done!

My problem was that my default feed was publishing every node, including images. I just want certain nodes to be included - news stories, posts, etc. I heard a lot about creating one with Views, but nothing for Views2, until I came across your tutorial.

For myself, I don't want to filter it by user id, so I have no arguments, and kept the path as /feeds/rss.xml. Without the %, there's no arguments, right? (I'm still quite new at Drupal.) Instead, I went to filters and added "Node: Published yes", and "Node type:" and added what types of nodes to add (ie news stories, posts), making sure I left out images.

Works like a charm!

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egrotke commented

Thanks!

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egrotke commented

Thanks to Goldcap for directing this thread to the Views Datasource Module.
Btw, Drupal.org could really use some functionality for promoting best answers in these threads to the top of the page.

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mhansen4 commented

The comments on this page stumped me for a few hours until I figured out (sorry don't remember where I read it) that only nodes and comments are accessible by default to create a RSS feed out of. I have a very closed website and I had wanted to have a feed containing contact info for users pulled from the user profile data. I have already created a table (using views) of this data that is displayed on my site. I was unable to to also create a RSS feed.

My view was originally based on the user table.

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malbert75 commented

I have followed almost every thing on this and other posts and still can't get this to work at all. I have a page that is created by a view, specifically it is a blog page that displays all of my sites users blog posts. I have a custom content type set to Blog and that is how the view is set up to filter out all the blog posts on one page. When I try an add a feed to this view, following all the instructions, its simply does not work. If I choose a separate url path then I get the correct rss feed view but I want users who visit this blog page to see that there is a feed associated with it. I don't want them to have to got to mysiteurl/blog/feeds. How do I get this to work and how do I get Firefox, Safari et all to recognize that there is a feed associated with my blog page?

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malbert75 commented

Anyone?

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malbert75 commented

Hello? Help please anyone out there... hello?

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malbert75 commented

Hello? Help please anyone out there... hello?

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heather commented

Sorry I was away these past few weeks and didn't get a chance to login to Drupal.org. Looks like you're pretty frustrated. I know how that feels! I hope this helps. I *think* I know what you're trying to do.

You can "attach" the feed to a parent display. Below, I give you instructions on how to do this. I will also amend the documentation to make sure others know how to do this too.

When you make a 'view' it can have multiple displays. E.g, a Page and an RSS feed are displays of the same view.

Malbert, let's start fresh with a test view.

Make a Page View for content of 'Blog' types. To keep it simple, just use all the defaults and use Node settings.
Set the Path to 'test' for this example.

Follow the instructions as above to make an RSS feed.

The final, important part is to attach it to your page. In the bottom of the 2nd column, you can see:

Feed settings
Path: None -> Click. Edit to change to test/rss.xml. Click update.
Attach to: None -> Click. Select [x] Page. Click update.

Save changes.

Click View "Page" (top of the Views Editor)

Now when you view http://example.com/test you see the little orange transmission icon, and a link to the RSS feed :)

I hope that helps! If not, describe exactly what steps you took and where it didn't work.

- Heather

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malbert75 commented

Thank you! This now works and I can breath a sigh of relief. I got lost in the page and attach to settings, that was my downfall. Thanks again!