Hello, for me it's not working.
I mapped publication date and an event date (CCK field date) and I sorted to have next event first and later down in the list (ascending order).
It's OK, the feed is in good order until I add a new event (node). Then, when the feed is updated, I can see just the new event in the feed. If I ask a second time, I see all events, but order is no more OK. It's in publication date order, descending. All publication dates are same except (october 21st), and last event has today date.
Down a copy of feed (first date is publication date and second date is event date):

xyz
vendredi, 23. octobre 2009, 14:58:15
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Explorations spéléologiques des Alpes
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13.11.2009

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How to make it work after update of concerned nodes?

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chungyc’s picture

chungyc commented

What do you mean that the order is not OK? Is it wrong within the feed itself, or just not the expected order in a feed reader? I suspect that it's in the specified order within the feed, but the feed reader shows the feed items in any order it wants to, which will probably be the newest item at the top for many cases.

sahuni’s picture

sahuni commented

Yes, you are right, feed is OK but feed reader shows the feed items in any order it wants to.
In fact I never installed feed reader, so It takes the one of Internet Explorer, I suppose. What am I suppose to install to read correctly feeds? I red a little about that, but was thinking that it was old stuff, no necessity to install something now-days.

If it's just a problem of feed reader, I hesitate to install my feed view on my websites, because I think a lot of people are in same case, and these people will think that my feed is a mess.

It would be nice of you to clear a little my mind.

chungyc’s picture

chungyc commented

It's a whole lot better to think of an RSS feed as being part of an update notification service, not an alternative view of your website. There is simply no way you can control how people use a feed reader: some sort items starting from the oldest, some sort from the newest, and others mix feed items from different RSS feeds. (In fact, I'd wager almost everyone mixes feed items: imagine having to check each of every hundreds of feeds when you could just aggregate them all together into a single view ...)

sahuni’s picture

sahuni commented

Thanks for reply
I understand your point.
What do you suggest I install on my computer to read feeds correctly (windows XP, using IE) ?

chungyc’s picture

chungyc commented

Not being a Windows user, I'm not sure what feed readers are available for Windows besides Internet Explorer itself (which seems to read feeds correctly AFAIK). There are probably tons of them out there, though. As for myself, I use the web-based feed reader Google Reader; another web-based reader I know about is Bloglines.

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David Goode commented
Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)

This sounds unrelated to this module; reopen as a support request please if you have problems relevant to views_rss specifically.

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David Goode commented
Category: bug » support

support request...