When you add an argument to a view, you can configure that a 'summary' listing should be displayed when no argument is provided or is invalid. Even with the row style set to RSS Fields, this is still rendered as HTML and without all the rss feed headers, tags, etc. It'd be great in such scenarios that the RSS description field be set to the summary output.

Cheers,
Stella

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rayvan’s picture

rayvan commented
Version: 6.x-1.0-beta4 » 6.x-1.0-beta5

how about argument support for all field usage values?

maciej.zgadzaj’s picture

maciej.zgadzaj commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

To tell the truth I don't see a way how this could work in a way which would be generic enough for all module users.

Let's assume we have a node-based view using Taxonomy: Term as an argument. Then, Summary would display list of all relevant terms.

Now, those terms cannot be displayed as <item> elements, as they are not really feed items (in this case nodes are feed items).

They could be displayed in channel <description> element, but that wouldn't make too much sense, as channel <description> cannot contain any HTML in it, so there would be no links, just a list of terms. Quite pointless in my opinion.

As I see it, in case of RSS feeds when there are no items to be displayed, then just no items are displayed, and nothing else should change - including all channel elements, which should stay the same too.

Please feel free to re-open the issue though if you'd like to discuss a different opinion.