Creating a feed description dynamically from views arguments [#901130]

I have created a Podcast feed using a noderef argument. I have a "Series" content type and an "Episode" content type. Each Episode references a single Series.

I have set up a feed that takes the noderef as its only argument and displays only the episodes for a single series. Using the noderef argument I can populate the feed title with the title of the Series.

Is there a method of doing the same for the feed description, ideally populating the deed description with the teaser of the node passed by the noderef argument? If there is currently no method to do this then please consider this a feature request.

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Comment #2

Everett Zufelt CreditAttribution: Everett Zufelt commented 3 September 2010 at 11:06

Project:	FileField Podcaster	» Views (for Drupal 7)
Version:	6.x-1.0	» 6.x-3.x-dev
Component:	Miscellaneous	» feed displays

Moving to "Views" project as this functionality is inherited from Views RSS.

Comment #3

Everett Zufelt CreditAttribution: Everett Zufelt commented 3 September 2010 at 11:44

To pose the question more directly.

Can functionality be introduced to populate the feed description from an argument. Example the teaser of a node passed as a Node Reference argument.

Perhaps I can make a replacement in views-view-rss.tpl.php

Comment #4

Everett Zufelt CreditAttribution: Everett Zufelt commented 3 September 2010 at 15:26

Project:	Views (for Drupal 7)	» FileField Podcaster
Version:	6.x-3.x-dev	» 6.x-1.0
Component:	feed displays	» Code
Category:	support	» feature

Sorry for moving this and then moving it back.

I read through the .module file for the module and indeed the functionality I seek needs to be addressed in this module, it is not inherited.

Currently ffpc is following what I believe is the default Feed behaviour of not allowing for a feed description to be set dynamically with an argument. It also doesn't appear that there are any theme variables available to allow for theming this behaviour.

If it would be considered for a future release I would be happy to try to write up a patch to allow an argument token for a node reference field to be used as the feed description. This would allow for dynamic feed descriptions to be generated when this style is used with a node reference argument.

Thanks.

Comment #5

markhammons CreditAttribution: markhammons commented 9 September 2010 at 21:32

I have another question along these lines. I have a podcast feed that is not populating the description field because (I believe) that my body for this content type is a custom name field (podcast_body) and not the default body.

Is there a way that I can have my new body be used as the description field?