The Set Up:
I have a custom themed node with taxonomy, a podcast of a Bible Message with Two offerings of Downloads, and a the Full Bible Message in Text Form.
So when somebody goes to the page they can stream, download, or read the Message.

The Problem:
1. The body of the node is the message, so when the feed is made, the summary is the entire message, which is quite long. (how can I theme the feed itself)
2. Each Message belongs to a "Series" (taxonomy) how do I output a different feed for each "series".

Additional question that may or may not be relevant to this module....
How can I create a view page of the list of feeds that are generated by views?

Comments

Rob_Feature’s picture

Rob_Feature commented

If I hear you correctly, here's your answers:

  1. I think you're looking to theme the output of the Views RSS feed that FFPC is putting out. At this time, I don't know of a way to do this. I thought maybe it could be done with Contemplate's RSS theming functionality, but it can't. I'm also wondering if this can be done with a Views theme function..but I don't know if that's possible either.
  2. To output a different feed for each series, just create multiple "Filefield Podcast" Views (all within one master view to make it easy) and just filter each one by taxonomy (just like you would any other view).

Hopefully #2 helps...I'll check into #1 further with Views theming because I think it sounds like an interesting idea.

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hankpalan.com commented

Thank you for you help on this one. It forced me to think of an alternative way to do what I wanted. Here is what I did:

  1. The default way Drupal themes a feed is using the body of the node in teaser form as the "teaser". For me it was over 3000 words showing up in a feed validation. So I changed the body to a brief description and made a new cck text field for the actual message. Works perfectly now.
  2. I looked at how Organic Groups did their group feeds to get a better idea of how to do this. This is what I came up with:
  • Feed path: path/%/feed
  • Argument:
    • Taxonomy: Term
    • Title: %1
    • Validation:
      • Validator: Taxonomy term
      • Picked the Vocabulary I wanted
      • Argument: Taxonomy name or synonym
  • Case: Capitalize first letter
  • Transform spaces to dashes in URL

So now I don't have to keep making new view every time I make a new category.

I also used this in conjunction with Feedburner and the Feedburner module to redirect my feeds through Feedburner to finish off the iTunes tags that I may or may not get with the audio file's id3 including the feed's iTunes picture.
Plus I get all the stat's that Feedburner has to offer and the FeedFlare.

Thanks for a great module to work with. I hope that somebody else can use the argument trick that I found.

Rob_Feature’s picture

Rob_Feature commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Marking as fixed. Thanks for laying out your Views setup for everyone!

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.