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SMS Podcast Tutorials?
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Written on: 09/01/2011
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Brad Linberg
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registered since: 02/09/2010
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No problem. They are not mine either. I appreciate any help I can get here. Thanks, I'll send you the info. -brad- "Bill Tenny-Brittian" wrote:
Brad, XML and RSS are not my strong suits by any means, but if you'll send me a backend admin login by personal email I'll take a look and see if I can find the issue. bill(at)webempoweredchurch[dot]org "Brad Linberg" wrote: That would be great! I'll set up a temp login for you to take a look. "Peter Schott" wrote: "Brad Linberg" wrote: Thanks for the tips. I think you're probably right. It's most likely something minor I'm missing. Unfortunately I'm not to good at deciphering typoscript. I just did the WEC starter package install hoping the RSS feed would already be set up and I could just configure it. Perhaps I'm missing some documentation though. I'll keep digging. "Peter Schott" wrote: "Brad Linberg" wrote: I recently upgraded to 4.5.4 but still having trouble with this. Unfortunately I've read through the documentation on the typo3 site but it seems to be outdated so I keep getting lost when it tells you to do something and the option isn't there. Also a lot of the links are broken in the typo3 site documentation now that they've upgraded their site. I'd really love to add an rss feed but my xml feed page just shows up as blank. http://www.desmoinesfellowship.org/index.php?id=78&type=222 Not sure where to go from here. Anyone have any ideas? Seeing that page id 78 works to show your sermons and type 222 shows what looks like the start of your RSS feed, I think you have a configuration issue. I would check out the templates to see what's configured. It's possible that a template could be overriding something else you have configured. With just a quick look, I'd guess at the storage folder or something similar because it seems set up but not finding the files. Have a look at the various templates and configs around your podcast setup and make sure that the storage folders are set to the correct location for your sermon resources. I definitely think you're on the right track and you're just missing one or two things. -Peter Brad, if you set up a temp login for me, I'd be willing to take a quick peek at it - can pm me @ paschott at gmail etc if interested. (Not sure why the profiles don't seem to allow PMs on this site.) No guarantees, but I might see what you're missing. -Peter |
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Written on: 09/07/2011
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 Bill Tenny-Brittian
registered since: 06/22/2006
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Brad, here was the problem. In the default setup, the RSS feed is set to look for the embedded_mp3 resource type. However, you opted to use the downloadfile as the resource type, therefore the RSS feed was empty. This is what the code looks like now: podcast.10 { CMD = XML # xmlView.enclosureType = embedded_mp3 xmlView.enclosureType = downloadfile pidList = 97 } In addition, the ampersand ( & ) symbol breaks RSS validation and the SMS extension uses them in its title. We replaced them as well. Which is really to say Jeff did all the work ... I just get the credit for posting the answer. Bill Tenny-Brittian
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Written on: 09/07/2011
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Brad Linberg
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registered since: 02/09/2010
Posts: 21
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I'm a little confused as to where the & symbols were replaced. When I view the RSS link it's still blank. Do I need to change the format for all my mp3s back to embedded mp3 instead of downloadable files? "Bill Tenny-Brittian" wrote:
Brad, here was the problem. In the default setup, the RSS feed is set to look for the embedded_mp3 resource type. However, you opted to use the downloadfile as the resource type, therefore the RSS feed was empty. This is what the code looks like now: podcast.10 { CMD = XML # xmlView.enclosureType = embedded_mp3 xmlView.enclosureType = downloadfile pidList = 97 } In addition, the ampersand ( & ) symbol breaks RSS validation and the SMS extension uses them in its title. We replaced them as well. Which is really to say Jeff did all the work ... I just get the credit for posting the answer. |
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Written on: 09/07/2011
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Peter Schott
registered since: 03/17/2007
Posts: 321
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I'm not seeing the changes either, Brad. I took a quick look at the site and your RSS feed is still empty. What Bill said makes sense, but it doesn't seem to have materialized. Just to be sure, you have cleared your caches, right? I imagine you or Jeff did, but just want to be sure. If so, then something else isn't configured correctly. Also, have you verified that the change was made to your config template to change the type to "embedded_mp3" as Bill mentioned? If that wasn't changed, but just noted, then it won't work. I'd probably double-check that to make sure. -Peter |
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Written on: 09/07/2011
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Brad Linberg
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registered since: 02/09/2010
Posts: 21
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Yeah I did go in and clear all caches again and saw that the change is there in the template setup. I think that's what's confusing me though. Seems like it should work. "Peter Schott" wrote:
I'm not seeing the changes either, Brad. I took a quick look at the site and your RSS feed is still empty. What Bill said makes sense, but it doesn't seem to have materialized. Just to be sure, you have cleared your caches, right? I imagine you or Jeff did, but just want to be sure. If so, then something else isn't configured correctly. Also, have you verified that the change was made to your config template to change the type to "embedded_mp3" as Bill mentioned? If that wasn't changed, but just noted, then it won't work. I'd probably double-check that to make sure. -Peter |
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Written on: 09/16/2011
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Brad Linberg
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registered since: 02/09/2010
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I noticed today looking at the rss feed http://www.desmoinesfellowship.org/index.php?id=78&type=222 that there appears to be some entries listed if you look at the source code. Just to see what happens I tried testing the subscription URL in itunes and it does find the list of sermons, but then gives me an error when trying to download them through itunes. Of course it's a helpful "unknown error" (-50). Not sure what that means. Any ideas? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that my sermons are downloadable files instead of embedded media? I wouldn't think that would make difference though. -brad- |
