Markus, Thanks for the um quick reply. The client was looking for some answers last week.
As for me I will not ever touch RedDot in my lifetime again. Would seriously go back to RPG or COBOL. P- On Jul 11, 2009, at 3:55 AM, markus giesen wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > Of course you can do that, and depending on, what you are going to do > with the aggregated content you need someone with a bit more RQL > experience. > Are you just showing the content within RedDot or do you want to > publish it from this point? > > When pulishing is part of the process and there is no need for a > workflow, it would make sense to fetch the content directly from the > live site using a .net or whatever script language might be used. > Within RedDot you can do a lot of stuff to get things running :) > Good luck, maybe try the reddot cms google group. > http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users > > Markus > http://www.reddotcmsblog.com > > On Jul 1, 5:33 am, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> Have a client (An agency) looking for some help with one of their >> other clients who is running RedDot CMS. Below is the description of >> the issue. I don't want anything for the referal. Just want to make >> sure whoever takes this does help the agency out and not make things >> worse. Contact me off list with your information and I'll pass it on >> to the agency contact. Who knows this might be a nice little on going >> RedDot gig. >> >> Basically all we want to do is to be able to pull in and display the >> following on the Red Dot site. Because the disparate pieces below are >> on different platforms from the Red Dot site, I would assume we would >> have to use RSS feeds to pull in the content. >> >> a) related blog posts filtered by categories/tags - it seems we >> can just filter this on the BLOG side of things by pulling in an RSS >> feed specific to the category/tag that content is tagged with on the >> Red Dot side. >> >> b) events filtered by location - I assume here too we would pull >> in RSS feeds but because each location may have a different RSS >> source, we'd have to create some code on the Red Dot side to >> determine >> which feed to pull based on the location a user selects. >> >> Any insights appreciated - even a "of course you can do that once you >> find a developer" would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for >> any help you can provide. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
