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Posted by troop170macon at Jun 4, 2006, 1:14:07 AM

RSS feeds
I like what I saw on the preview of the event spanning days feature, hopefully that will be available soon.

In the same vane. I would like to see the RSS feed not present an event 3 times that spreads over 3 days.

Another issue I have with the rss is that if you click on the event, it does not return the date of the event. Otherwise I really like everything. It seems very easy to use.

I have embedded the calendar into our site and it looks great.

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Posted by troop170macon at Jun 5, 2006, 10:06:54 AM

Re: RSS feeds
One other issue with the RSS feeds. I was wanting to use the feed as an upcoming events section on our website. It appears to be showing all events for the current month.

Posted by troop170macon at Jun 5, 2006, 2:48:47 PM

Re: RSS feeds
1.I like what I saw on the preview of the event spanning days feature, hopefully that will be available soon. ( I got this working from reading the announcement post a little closer)

2.In the same vane. I would like to see the RSS feed not present an event 3 times that spreads over 3 days. THIS IS STILL AN OPEN QUESTION

3.Another issue I have with the rss is that if you click on the event, it does not return the date of the event. Otherwise I really like everything. It seems very easy to use. IS STILL AN OPEN QUESTION

4.One other issue with the RSS feeds. I was wanting to use the feed as an upcoming events section on our website. It appears to be showing all events for the current month. ( I got this working from reading the announcement post a little closer)

Posted by support at Jun 7, 2006, 9:43:21 PM

Re: RSS feeds
For #4, anyway, I think you want to use the RSS feed for the "Today+Happening Soon" view rather than the full month feed.
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Posted by troop170macon at Jun 10, 2006, 4:52:29 PM

Re: RSS feeds
What do you think about items 2 & 3?

Posted by support at Jun 12, 2006, 9:37:04 PM

Re: RSS feeds
I think #2 and #3 are more related to your RSS reader. We just return the XML for the events on the calendar. It's possible to slice and dice it a zillion ways by writing XSL to transform the XML into HTML (or more XML!)

If you are just using a vanilla RSS reader to parse this XML, then you are basically taking whatever they give you. We don't want to restrict the information in our feed to suit the presentation whims of a particular 3rd-party product.
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Posted by troop170macon at Jun 16, 2006, 4:36:10 PM

Re: RSS feeds
I guess that what I am referring to is the xml link to the web calendar.

ie this is the link in the xml file. It links to the event and a time, not the date.

http://www.localendar.com/elsie?DAM=PublishedEvent&event_id=11&calendar_id=256844&k=062506&cb=false

Posted by support at Jun 19, 2006, 2:47:31 PM

Re: RSS feeds
I think I get it...

Are you saying that the event detail link should list the entire range a multi-day event is occurring [once], rather than each particular day [n times for an n-day event]?
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Posted by troop170macon at Jun 21, 2006, 12:11:46 AM

Re: RSS feeds
That would be great, but the main thing is that the link does not display the date.

Posted by support at Jun 23, 2006, 3:15:46 PM

Re: RSS feeds
You mean the description. The pubDate field in the XML contains the event date. I take it your reader doesn't expose that field?
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