Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.The aggregator module as a core extension of Drupal still hides much of its functionality behind custom code. This severely limits its usefullness and appears to be a situation that could be easily remedied by converting feed output to a view. This would follow the standard Drupal plan of converting module output to views for flexibility.
This would makes it easy for web developers to change the aggregator page title (without coding prowess), alter the format and size of images, or customize additional fields that are added via the manage fields page.
It would also help if aggregator's output was added as a custom content type, to be more fully exposed and customizable for non-coders.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #31 | 2680527-31.patch | 10.12 KB | dcam |
Comments
Comment #2
cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commentedCan you please rewrite the issue summary into an single issue that is solvable?
Comment #3
zoon_unit CreditAttribution: zoon_unit commentedNot sure what you want me to do. The single biggest issue is lack of a Views definition for Aggregator default output, making it difficult or impossible to make changes without "hacking" Drupal.
Comment #4
cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commentedIn the spirit of helping you out with your needs, I am trying to channel this toward a solvable goal, or it may be ignored and you may be more frustrated. You may want to convert this issue to the "Plan" category, and lay out a series of tactical goals, which can later be turned into actionable sub-issues.
Comment #5
zoon_unit CreditAttribution: zoon_unit commentedcilefen, thanks.
The main issue is a lack of a view for customizing feed output. After more research, I found that someone filed an open issue proposing changing the output to a view four years ago, so I guess this request is redundant. :-)
I don't want to make my issue non-specific on purpose, but there are several other problems with aggregator that makes it appear as if work has stopped on it. For instance, the views that ARE included (aggregator/sources) are not fully functional. (I filed a separate issue for that one)
Also, the help text at "/admin/config/services/aggregator" refers to the "latest items" block, but that block is non-existent.
For my own purposes, I've realized that I can "fix" the existing view, and make my own "feeds" view to solve my immediate concerns, but since aggregator is included in Drupal core, I would think the developers would want to make it functional out of the box, hence the issue. Feel free to close this issue if you consider it non-standard.
Comment #6
cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commented@zoon_unit The issue, as is, is a feature request. Can it be fixed with a patch? If so, should the title could be "Add a view for customizing feed output", clean up the issue summary to relate to that specifically, and we're good.
Comment #7
zoon_unit CreditAttribution: zoon_unit commentedComment #8
zoon_unit CreditAttribution: zoon_unit commented@cilefen, I've followed your suggestion. :-)
One last thing: I am not a coder, so I'm not set up to issue patches, but I "could" export the corrected "aggregator/sources" view and the "feeds" view, after I've fixed them, and post them here, if you think that would be helpful . . .
Comment #9
cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commentedIt would help.
Comment #10
cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commentedPlease attach them - do not paste them. You can refer to them in the issue summary.
Comment #22
quietone CreditAttribution: quietone at PreviousNext commentedThe
aggregatormodule has been removed from Core in10.0.x-devand now lives on as a contrib module. Issues in the Core queue about theaggregatormodule, like this one, have been moved to the contrib module queue.Comment #23
larowlanComment #24
larowlanComment #25
dcam CreditAttribution: dcam as a volunteer commentedLet's see what breaks.
I made a couple of bonus edits to the feed template file. I noticed that they were needed while I was trying to understand how to make the feed title not be rendered.
Comment #27
dcam CreditAttribution: dcam as a volunteer commentedThe failures were due to post-migration entity counts that needed to be updated since I added three new entities.
Comment #28
dcam CreditAttribution: dcam as a volunteer commentedComment #29
dcam CreditAttribution: dcam as a volunteer commentedI'm setting this back to active because there's more work to be done on it. An upgrade path needs to be written. We need to decide whether the Items component of the Feed view should be deprecated. I'd say "yes." I looked at what the Taxonomy module does for Terms to try and find a best practice. It doesn't appear to have a component for displaying referenced entities, deferring that responsibility to Views. Feeds and their Items are a slightly different scenario, but I'd still prefer to do all query building with Views.
Comment #30
larowlanExciting to see this moving 🎉
Comment #31
dcam CreditAttribution: dcam as a volunteer commentedRerolled 27.