RSS News Feeds and URL: How to provide hyperlink ?

[hvs69]

Hi,

I did a search but could not find it. Most RSS feeds have a URL (http link)associated with each item. Is there any way to put a button on the news page which opens a browser directed to the http link for that particular item of ther RSS database ?

Let me know if this has been implemented or else I will move the post to feature request forum.

Thanks.

[jowaldo]

I'm pretty sure this isn't possible as of now at least

[antipasto]

i can't recommend an off-the-shelf solution, but my xsl plugin at http://writtorrent.sf.net can provide a button the ability to transform any xml into another via XSL transformations. That is, you can make an RSS feed into whatever XLobby database format you desire. Can take a bit to set it up, but could definately help you acheive this if the features are not yet available in the RSS newsreader subsystem.

[NJKMak]

This may be what you are looking for:

I created a screen (call it "news viewer") with a web page window on it and a single button with a back event.

I created an even that includes a go to screen ("news viewer") and then a go to url (%news>link%)

Then I set up the news category on the news page so navigating to a line displays the summary in a window and clicking on the line launches the page.

Thats it


Hope this helps

NJKMak

[hvs69]

NJMak,

Your solution is almost working.

However, the "goto URL" event is adding an extra "http://" so the browser sees http://http://xyz.com and I get an error.

How do I fix that ? Thanks.

[NJKMak]

Not sure what it could be -

I have set it up on the visual skin and one of my own (just did it again on a fresh version of the visual skin to make sure).

Ideas:
On the "news viewer" screen do you have a base web page load? I have it set up so google loads as the default and the news link reloads the page. If you don't have a page load by default I'm not sure what would happen.

Have you tried different feeds? I have tested with mostly yahoo or rueters rss feeds. Also, maybe there is an issue with the database (have you deleted and recreated the database?)

I am running a slightly older xlobby release (1.0.1679.3223), not sure if anything has changed lately that would impact it.

Hope this helps, Good luck

NJKMak

[hvs69]

NJMAK,

You were right, there is a problem with one particular RSS feed. I still don't what exactly is wrong with it because the link field looks normal to me. Your solution works fine with other RSS feeds. Thanks a lot for your help.

If you get a chance could you please look at the following RSS feed that I am having this problem with. Let me know if you can figure out what is wrong with it. Your help will be greatly appreiciated.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssf ... 479906.cms

[NJKMak]

Glad to hear it works,
Not sure about the specific feed, I couldn't make it work either.
Does it work in a normal news reader?
Good luck

NJKMak

[hvs69]

NJMak,

Thanks for trying. I think you should post this in Tips & Tricks forum. I can bet that not many people know about this.