Please help me with this simple question.

I have been using feeds for some time but just can not figure out how to do something.

I have one content type "feed" that creates content items of type "feed items". Very straight forward. I have one importer with Tamper that is attached to type "feed".

What I really want to do is create several feed importers, each that resolves different feed issues (some that strip HTML, some that have extra fields) and then when I create a new specific "feed" item (import list of baseball stats), select the right feed importer that will work best for this specific feed's content. NOW it seems like I'm just stuck with the one assigned to that content type.

How do I do this??

Feed image grabber works works this way, even though I have default settings, for each feed I create there is a dialog section on the create content page that lets me alter setting for that specific feed. That makes sense because ever feed is different. Surely feeds must work the same way, I am just missing something or need to enable something. Almost every feed I work with is different is subtle ways so I can not be the first to think of this or need this.

I have read all that I could find and it pains me to ask a question that I feel I should be able to solve on my own.

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gstout’s picture

gstout commented
Version: 6.x-1.0-beta11 » 7.x-2.x-dev

Can someone please offer me a little advice here?

ryanrain’s picture

ryanrain commented
Title: Help with functionality, dif importer for dif feeds of same content type » Select one of multiple feed importers at /node/add/feed
Component: Miscellaneous » User interface
Category: support » feature

I'm building a site that hopes to allow non-technical users to also add feeds, and am looking for a way to allow a user to select one of multiple importers as they create or edit a feed at /node/add/feed.

This is the first time i've used feeds to configure content aggregation, and so have probably missed something, but looking around the current dev release, it looks like there is currently no way for users to make multiple feed importers available to a single content type. Instead, i'd need to create a new content type for each importer i want to use. This would work, but is not an ideal user experience for content creators, and greatly complicates the creation (and maintenance) of views of feed items. I have no idea how difficult this functionality would be to create, but think it would definitely improve Feeds' usability.

@gstout Hopefully I understood your post correctly, and that you don't mind I changed the title and category. I see it hasn't moved for a while and so figured it would be ok.

Thanks everyone!
- ryan

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ryanrain commented

I apologize i missed the long thread at http://drupal.org/node/856136 where several people request similar functionality.

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megachriz
Primary language Dutch
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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
Related issues: +#1127696: Attach multiple importers to one content type (in D7), +#2640108: Display an error message when attaching an importer to a content type that is already in use by an other importer

Looks like a duplicate of #1127696: Attach multiple importers to one content type (in D7).

Also related: #2640108: Display an error message when attaching an importer to a content type that is already in use by an other importer