Thanks for the advice Dave.
If I understand correctly I should be able to have one aggregated page
ie the
homepage of my Roller site and I could have any number of aggregated
Planet feeds,
each with different subscriptions by using the Group Subscription facility.
I'd be happy with having the Global Admin maintain the group aggregate
subscriptions -
its a small price for getting things working.
However, my site home page is not showing the aggregated content, it
justs shows a single post
from the 'home' blog.
In addition, the aggregated feeds are very odd. In various tests I've
found that a newly
created group aggregate feed eg
http://mysite.com:8080/roller/planetrss?group=new_aggregate
just gives the whole site aggregate as if the ?group param was being
ignored.
I've also seen the main site aggregate feed start to deliver the new
group aggregate feed INSTEAD
of its main subscription. And I've also seen the main aggregate feed
deliver a combination
of its main subscription PLUS the group aggregate. I'm wondering if
these are caching problems?
I've tried deleting the cache from within Roller's admin pages and also
tried totally deleting
the cache contents from the OS command line but without effect.
Finally, I ran into problems when removing test groups when I got
Status 500 messages "There in no Action mapped for action name
planetGroups".
I had to delete data directly from the mysql database (tables
rag_subscription,
rag_entry, rag_group).
Steve
Dave wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Steve McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can I configure Planet to have different subscriptions for
different aggregated Roller blogs? I only seem to be able
to define one set of subscriptions via the Planet Configuration
page and it is these that appear on the aggregated home page.
Yes, that is a limitation of Roller's built-in Planet, there is only
one Planet instance.
It would be nicer if each blog had it's own Planet, but that's a RFE
for another day.
A work-around would be to create a Planet Group for each blog. The
main problem with this approach is that the subscriptions in the
groups will have to be maintained by Global Admin(s) of the site and
not the individual bloggers.
- Dave
Dave wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Steve McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Roller allows the home page of the site to be an aggregated blog
via use of the Planet aggregator and the 'HomePage' theme.
I'm wondering if its possible to have more than one aggregated
blog per site ie others in addition to the Home Page for the site.
The aggregated site-wide blog does get some special treatment, for
example its feeds are aggregated feeds and it automatically gets the
$site model.
But it is possible to use the $site and $planet models in any blog.
You can configure the models via your roller-custom.properties file or
you can add models to any blog via the blog's settings page, if you
are a Global Admin users.
- Dave
