I'm using FeedAPI to aggregate rss content onto my site. I'm trying to use External Link Popularity to sort the content with views, but I'm running into a hiccup.

FeedAPI adds a link to the "Original Article" in the 'links section' of a node (down by add a comment). External Link Popularity correctly registers a vote for the node if this "Original Article" link is clicked.

Now, if I create a view, FeedAPI provides a handful of fields that can be included in the view. The "FeedAPI Item: Title with link to original URL" and "FeedAPI Item: URL" fields provide links to the original article. However, when I click on those links a vote does not register.

Is there a setting or another module that I'm missing to get this working? Or is this not a supported feature?

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neyoung commented

Oh, this is with Drupal 6.9, FeedAPI 6.x-1.5, Views 6.x-2.2, VotingAPI 6.x-2.0-rc2, External Link Popularity 6.x-1.4

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sikjoy commented

Hi:

This is strange. ELP uses a regular expression to pick out the external links. If it finds a link in one place, it should find it in every place. I'll try to duplicate the bug on my dev server. I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks for the much needed extra information.

--sicjoy

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sikjoy commented

I just thought of something:

Click tracking can be enabled / disabled on a node type by node type basis. See admin/settings/pop_links under the Node types section.

I'm not sure if the view has a different node type than the Feed API's node. If it does, and click tracking is not enabled for the view node type, that would explain the problem.

This is just a guess on my part, however. Can you confirm that Views is not creating a new node type? If it is, make sure that you have enabled click tracking for the Views node.

Cheers,

sicjoy

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neyoung commented

I've named my feed item node type "News". I have tracking enabled for this "News" type. I tried enabling tracking for the "Feed" node type, but that didn't seem to make a difference (I didn't really expect that it would).

The only Node types that are available for tracking at admin/settings/pop_links are...

Feed - FeedAPI feed node type
News - FeedAPI feed item node type
Page - Default Drupal node type
Story - Default Drupal node type

The view type that I'm using is Node. I don't know how to tell if Views is creating a new node type or not. If it is, it's not showing up on admin/content/types.

Here's an export of the view that I'm using.

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'Test';
$view->description = 'test';
$view->tag = '';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Test', 'default');
$handler->override_option('relationships', array(
  'votingapi_cache' => array(
    'label' => 'Voting results',
    'required' => 0,
    'votingapi' => array(
      'value_type' => '',
      'tag' => '',
      'function' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'votingapi_cache',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'votingapi_cache',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'item_title_url' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'item_title_url',
    'table' => 'feedapi_node_item',
    'field' => 'item_title_url',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'value' => array(
    'label' => 'Value',
    'set_precision' => FALSE,
    'precision' => 0,
    'decimal' => '.',
    'separator' => ',',
    'prefix' => '',
    'suffix' => '',
    'appearance' => NULL,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'value',
    'table' => 'votingapi_cache',
    'field' => 'value',
    'relationship' => 'votingapi_cache',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
  'created' => array(
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'granularity' => 'second',
    'id' => 'created',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'created',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
  'type' => array(
    'operator' => 'in',
    'value' => array(
      'news' => 'news',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'type',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'type',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'status' => array(
    'operator' => '=',
    'value' => '1',
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'status',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'status',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('distinct', 1);
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page_1');
$handler->override_option('path', 'test');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
  'type' => 'normal',
  'title' => 'Test',
  'weight' => '0',
  'name' => 'primary-links',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
));

I hope that helps.

If you need any more information let me know and I can post it.

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neyoung commented
Title: FeedAPI Links in view doen't register a vote » FeedAPI links in view don't register a vote

Fixed a typo in title

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dsweeney0126 commented

did you ever find a resolution? encountering a similar problem

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nkschaefer commented

I don't know if anyone is still looking at this issue, but the problem exists because the module currently only looks for links rendered in node bodies - not links within Views fields.

I just wrote a Drupal 7 version of the module that can detect links within Views fields as well as node bodies - as long as, on the Views field, the options "output as a link" and "external link" are both marked true. This depends on Field API, so it's only for Drupal 7 now, but it would probably be easy enough to learn more about how CCK-Views worked and backport it to Drupal 6.

For now, if anyone is using Drupal 7 and wants to try it out, I have a sandbox project for this at http://drupal.org/sandbox/nkschaefer/1238548 where you can check out the code; I also posted a zipped version to this page: http://drupal.org/node/1052402

Thanks,
Nathan