RSS Export per board in VP 3.6.4???

[goodsamaritan55]

Hello,

We need a board that is able to export RSS on a PER BOARD basis much like the RSS on SMF.

1. Can this be done in VB 3.6.4?
2. Can you point me to sample forums? Or does this forum have it running? How and where to click RSS export per board?

[simsim]

1. Yes, this can be done in vBulletin 3.6.
2. Right here in these forums. If you're using Firefox click on the RSS feed icon in the address bar of the browser. You'll see an option to subscribe either to the whole forums or only to this Pre-sales forum. There are thrilling RSS features in vBulletin like the RSS Robot Poster which allows you publish feeds from other sites right in your forum, or vice versa.

[goodsamaritan55]

Thanks, I saw the URL choices RSS to subscribe to using Firefox.

Can you point me to the URL or PDF of the Full Documentation regarding RSS implementation? How do I use it? I need to test it first before I recommend it to my customer. I have to show him that it works.

Thanks.

[Andy Huang]

The documentation can be found here (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/vboptions_group_external).

[rnmcd]

1. Yes, this can be done in vBulletin 3.6.
2. Right here in these forums. If you're using Firefox click on the RSS feed icon in the address bar of the browser. You'll see an option to subscribe either to the whole forums or only to this Pre-sales forum. There are thrilling RSS features in vBulletin like the RSS Robot Poster which allows you publish feeds from other sites right in your forum, or vice versa.

How does the user 'enable' RSS if the user is using Internet Explorer?


I truly know next-to-nothing about RSS... I need to do a bunch of reading.

Is RSS a 'drain' on server resources?:o

[ManagerJosh]

RSS feeds are only part of IE7. You just add it to your feed list by clicking the RSS button.

and no, it isn't a drain because it's basically a bunch of XML :)

[rnmcd]

Does that mean that if a users has a version of IE earlier than 7 ,and wants to read RSS, they need to change browsers or upgrade to IE7?

[simsim]

RSS feeds can be read in different ways. But yes, if you want to read them from Internet Explorer, you'll need to upgrade to v7! Otherwise you could use News Readers or other browsers, like Firefox (I don't know about other browsers).

[goodsamaritan55]

1. Yes, this can be done in vBulletin 3.6.
2. Right here in these forums. If you're using Firefox click on the RSS feed icon in the address bar of the browser. You'll see an option to subscribe either to the whole forums or only to this Pre-sales forum. There are thrilling RSS features in vBulletin like the RSS Robot Poster which allows you publish feeds from other sites right in your forum, or vice versa.

I have experimented with the RSS feed and I saw that the RSS output is PER THREAD title, it outputs per thread, and only the first post on the thread.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=47

I will be needing a PER POST RSS Output. How do I do this with VBulletin? What parameters in the URL do I indicate?

Do I add anything? like &output=newposts?

[Andy Huang]

RSS doesn't output post body of a thread because that's a lot of queries (resource intensive, especially if your forum is popular and lots of subscribers checking for updates once ever 1/2 hr or so). Though, for those that are presistant in doing so, there is a custom addon called I think fp_extern on vbulletin.org; which includes post bodies of threads. It is unsupported by jelsoft and you'd have to get support there with the code's author.

[goodsamaritan55]

Please post the URL of the RSS export post body addon / modification.

[flvfiles]

please, i need too

[goodsamaritan55]

Export RSS per POST? Like SMF?
What is the URL of the Plugin?