Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I'm setting up a website where I will have multiple podcasts using this module. I've set up a content type for "Podcast Series," where we set up nodes for each individual series. It features CCK fields for show summaries, images, a multiple entry text field for indicating hosts, etc. I use the Audio module for holding episodes, and use a node reference on the Audio nodes to associate them with the series. I like setting it up this way because I have a landing page for each series (and I have an embedded view showing the "episodes" associated to that series.
I love this module and it does everything for me that I want, except for one thing... I would love to be able to dynamically fill in the feed information (ie. summary, author, categories, copyright, etc) in Views from the CCK fields for the podcast series. I can set up a relationship to bring that data into a view, but I can't make that data fill into the iTunes feed because it's set under the display style. If I could do this, I would set up one feed and it would automatically dole out iTunes-ready feeds for every podcast series I create without having to clone a single view by hand.
Maybe there's another way to do this that I'm not thinking of. Any help would be appreciated.
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Comments
Comment #1
podox commentedI'd also like to request this. We have hundreds of feeds all using the same View (with an argument). The feed image, feed author, copyright etc. is different for each feed. I'd like to be able to dynamically populate this info from CCK fields.
SWFTools provides an example of how the interface to this could look (image attached). You can add fields to the view (excluding them to stop them being displayed), and then select them in the style settings.
Comment #2
d73ford commentedThe ability to add fields would be great. Then you could actually add lines to support tracking your files on itunes with google analytics.
Info here. http://www.volomedia.com/solutions/itunes-metrics/
Comment #3
Everett Zufelt commented+1
I haven't played with this module, but am looking for a module that will allow me to do exactly what iTunes module does. However, at the very least I need to be able to populate the feed description dynamically with the body or teaser of a node passed in through a nodref argument.
Comment #4
janusman commented+1
It might be a bit hard to support all types of CCK fields, however. Some might like to use a Link.module field for artwork, others a text field, etc. Coming up with a basic list of most-used field types that would match each iTunes tag would be helpful.
Also, discuss how mapping of multivalued CCK fields into iTunes tags (some are repeating, some must be comma-separated, etc.) would be handled.