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RSS for the Aggregator

February 14, 2004 By Will Richardson

Ok, I think I asked this before. But now I need to figure out how to make this work. I’ve subcribed to many of the sites I’ve been making using the Manila aggregator. Now, I want to push this aggregated list of stories to another page using the viewRSSBox macro. The idea is that on the homepage of the site we could keep a running list of all the headlines from all the Welogs that are being updated. So, I need to figure out how to get an XML feed for the stuff that’s being aggregated. Is that possible?

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Comments

  1. Dan Mitchell says

    February 14, 2004 at 10:15 am

    I think I understand what you are asking for, so I just threw together a crude example. At De Anza College we have a Manila server that supports a few hundred faculty sites. I used Manila’s aggregator to subscribe to all of them. Then I created a new story whose content is simply the [Macro error: Can’t evaluate the expression because the name “adrSiteRootTable” hasn’t been defined.]
    macro.

    In my case, I made this story the home page, but there are other ways to get it onto the home page along with existing material. I like to use the Manila includeMessage macro to insert the contents of one page (the one containing the aggregated list) into another page (the home page).

    See http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/aggregator and http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/weblogs for examples.

    Good luck

  2. Will R. says

    February 15, 2004 at 5:23 am

    Thanks, Dan. I had it working for a minute, but now for some reason it doesn’t want to. Stumped…but I’ll keep playing.

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