RSS Feeds

[caseydk]

As one of the requirements within a recent project, there was a need for a simple RSS feed to be created to allow customers non-authenticated access to get a snapshot of what was going on in their project.

Under some basic direction and payment from me, the highly esteemed and wildly diligent cyberhorse has developed a simple RSS feed for both the 1.0.2 and 2.0 versions of dotProject.

In order to encourage the dotProject community, these two modules will be released for general usage. In order to protect my client's investment, this is unlikely to happen for about 60 days for the 2.0 version and about a week for the 1.0.2 version.

The release will be announced here, my blog, and probably via the dP mailing list.

Once again, thanks to cyberhorse.

[pedroa]

caseydk thanks for the funding,
cyberhorse thanks for the developing,

I am hoping to see what this RSS Feeds module can deliver.

Thanks again,

Pedro A.

[cyberhorse]

Thanks for the kind words both of you :)

Pedro, at the moment the rss feed delivers basic project status information. You select which projects you want to monitor, and it tells you what start/end date, description and completion percentage they are at, along with a direct link to the project of course. This can easily be extended to more things, but you will have to put a requirement forward :)

[caseydk]

Yeah, it's really simple more for just showing in a block or module somewhere.

I'm thinking that integration with a couple other aspects might be useful, but they weren't in the specs.

[brett.hooker]

(found it)

What's the status of releasing this to the "world"?

[pedroa]

http://www.dotproject.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2933

[departure]

When I try to install the module I get a 'Module setup file could not be found'.

Am I doing something wrong? I copied the rss2 folder into the module folder on my server.

[pedroa]

This is not properly a module.
It is not to setup as normal module.
It is more a patch to existing files and new files that inject rss functionality.
Watch the compress file structure and you will figure out their correct place.
Take the root index.php file as a starting point.

Pedro A.

[caseydk]

Thanks Pedora.

We (CaseySoftware) try to release something on a semi-regular basis back to the community immediately.