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gsmith
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Jul 19, 2006, 11:30 AM

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Hi all,

I successfully got the RSS feed working for my site, slopeflyer.com. Just wondering how I can get the summary field from AM to show up in a news reader. I use NetNewsWire and instead of a brief description or snippet of the story it simply says (no description). I suspect I just need to add a tolken but don't know the format.

RSS feed link is:

http://www.slopeflyer.com/rss.xml

Thanks,

Greg

MikeB
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Aug 3, 2006, 1:22 PM

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Re: [gsmith] RSS Feed Question - Summary Content [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the post! Smile

I apologize for the delay in getting back to you on this.

Here are the steps you can follow to add the summary in Article Manager to your RSS feed. You'll actually want to create a new field for the "RSS Summary" as generally XML feeds are pretty picky about the text as some content (certain characters, HTML code, etc.) may cause errors.

1. First you'll want to log into Article Manager and click "Setup Options". From there you'll want to find the heading that says "Article Fields" and find an empty field that hasn't been used yet. You can set the field type to "textarea" and set the name to "RSS Summary". Be sure to set the "enabled" checkbox for this field and make a note of the field placeholder (art_fieldX).

Now when you create a new article you'll want to fill this box with your basic summary. There shouldn't be any images or HTML coding in this summary so it will still work in XML format.

2. Now you'll want to open up the template used for your RSS feed. On this server it's in the /artman/templates/index/ folder and called rss_template.xml.

In this file, anywhere you see this line:

<title>$art_name$</title>

You'll want to modify it to add a new line below it, so it will look like this:

<title>$art_name$</title>
<description>$art_fieldX$</description>

You'll just want to replace the X with the actual field number you're using.

I hope this helps and if you have any other questions or comments, just let me know! Smile

Cheers,
Mike Briggs - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

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adidas
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Sep 8, 2006, 1:10 PM

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Re: [MikeB] RSS Feed Question - Summary Content [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hello i would like to do something similar.

http://www.defencetalk.com/news/rss.xml

I want my rss.xml to look like this. Right now all it has is basic configurations. Also how would i setup a seprate rss feed for a seprate category?

Please tell me how to do this step by step

Thank you for your help.

(This post was edited by adidas on Sep 8, 2006, 3:18 PM)

ross
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Sep 9, 2006, 12:45 PM

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Re: [adidas] RSS Feed Question - Summary Content [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi.

Thanks for posting and welcome to the board!

Most RSS feeds look more or less the same, but if you wanted to get something as similar as possible to the link you posted, have a look at this tutorial on our site:

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/articlemanager/tutorials/rss.html

It will go over all the steps for getting an RSS going. Once you have it setup for the main category, all you would need to do is repeat step 2 for each category you wanted to add. The only thing is that in the query lines, you�ll need to also include cat=X in the line to tell each one what category it needs to run for. X of course, is needs to be the category number.

Have a look and let me know how you make out Smile

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Ross Fairbairn - Product Specialist
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adidas
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Sep 9, 2006, 5:35 PM

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Re: [ross] RSS Feed Question - Summary Content [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thank you for your reply ross, but i was wondering if you could create an xml template for me which gives the same rss feed like on that site. For example how it shows up Category name, description, name of the article, and all the things in it. Also some help regarding how would i set (description) that up.

I would really appreciate your help in the regard. Once that is done i guess categories will be a piece of cake for me. Wink

Thanks again.

(This post was edited by adidas on Sep 9, 2006, 5:37 PM)

ChetW
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Sep 10, 2006, 4:09 PM

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Re: [adidas] RSS Feed Question - Summary Content [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

Thanks for the post!

What you may want to do is send us a copy of the current xml template that you are working with, from there I'll be happy to help guide you so that your rss template turns out the way that you would like. :)

Does this help? I look forward to hearing back from you!
Cheers,
Chet Woodside - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

adidas
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Sep 12, 2006, 9:33 PM

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Re: [ChetW] RSS Feed Question - Summary Content [In reply to]	Can't Post

Sir thanks for your post.

I have not modified anything in the rss template. I am running the default rss template that is posted in the tutorials sections of the website, thats why i was wondering if you could edit out rss template (default) one and make it look like the rss template link i have posted above.

Thanks

Donna
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Sep 13, 2006, 4:34 PM

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Re: [adidas] RSS Feed Question - Summary Content [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi there,

To add additional items to the RSS feed, you essentially just need to add in the tags in this format:

<SpecificRSSTag>$placeholder$</SpecificRSSTag>

For example,

<category>$cat_name$</category>

Take a look at the admin guide for other placeholders that you can use on this page:

http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/doc.cgi?/articlemanager/admin/doc_page40.html

You may also want to take a look at an RSS Guide. Here's one that has some extra RSS elements you can use: http://www.feederreader.com/TechnicalGuides/RSS_Basic.html

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Donna

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