I've searched and can't find the answer to my problem. Also, I posted this as a reply to another issue I had with no luck of responses.

Here goes:

Often, when I click one of the topics on one of our Web pages (cnewspubs.com) and then the RSS icon, it doesn't give me a feed for that individual topic. Instead, it's the last five items that were posted to the main page.

For instance: http://www.cnewspubs.com/sports

I can subscribe to the RSS feed from one of the topics - but not multiple topics. Instead I get the feed for the original subscription or the last five articles that were posted - regardless of topic.

Example:
Click "Community Call-outs" in the topic list on the right. The url changes from http://www.cnewspubs.com/sports/modules/news to http://cnewspubs.com/sports/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=63 - like it should. It shows those items posted under that topic.

The problem is, when I subscribe to that feed, it gives me the last five articles posted in general.

This is no good!! I wanted to create a widget/blidget with the "community call-outs" for the left side of the page so our readers can quickly see what signups are coming up for youth sports.

Any ideas???

Deb

dcarson@cnewspubs.com

Try these syndication modules, one of them should do what you ask.

RSS Syndication modules

I personally use "planet" I haven't tried the others as yet.

I create a category then add the feed or feeds relevant to that category, so your topic could be the category, then add the RSS feed from that topic.

thanks for the suggestion. I'll pass it along to our IT guy and see if it works. I'll keep you posted.

So, the I.T. guy installed the X-reaggregator and it works well enough - except for the topics issue.

I can still only subscribe to one topic no matter that there are 10 there.

Any ideas?

I have no knowledge of x-aggregator, I do know though that you definitely can subscribe to individual topics with "Planet". Yes it's a bit of setting up, but not that hard. I create a Category first, then add the individual RSS feeds to that category. I activate the Category block for Planet, I click on Category A, all the RSS feeds or the one RSS feed I added to that Category is now the only topic/Category on that page. If I go to the bottom of the page there is the three Feed types these links >>> RSS | RDF | ATOM

I then either just right click RSS and select copy link location, or click on the RSS feed and a page comes up in my browser (FF3) I can get the link from that as well. So once you have the link from the Category you want you paste it into where you want it, use a neat little RSS icon to make it look like you know what you are doing.

Have a look at what I set up for one of my sites, have a look around, click on the categories in the top left hand side, check them out, look for the RSS | RDF | ATOM links click on them see how they work.


Planet Example

I am fairly sure you can do what you want with planet, YMMV ;o)

Edit: Thought I shoulad ask what module/s you want to get the feed from, I guess not all modules are setup the same way. I know with Article, newbb, for example, the feeds can be gotten from Categories, topics etc. Maybe your problem is the module you want to get the feeds from. Just a thought ;o)