Ticket #8540 (reopened Feature Request)

Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

/events/aggregator/RSS and similar events-specific feeds should optionally yield presentation of an event's dates

Reported by: grahamperrin Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: Future
Component: General Version: 4.2
Keywords: Cc: regebro, nd51

Description

Example

At  http://www.brighton.ac.uk/centrim/ in the left hand column we have an RSS portlet feeding from the  Freeman Centre events aggregator. Both Plone sites within the same instance.

Expected

The date of New achievements in measuring technology and innovation output is 10th October 2008, and should be presented as such.

Bug

The date of the event is misrepresented as 26th September.

(That's the date of publication of the object, not the date of the event.)

Environment

  • Plone 3.1.5.1
  • Safari

Change History

comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin

  • Cc lennart added

Until further notice:

comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin

  • Cc regebro added; lennart removed

comment:3 follow-up: ↓ 4 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin

  • Summary changed from /events/aggregator/RSS fed to an RSS portlet misrepresents dates, confusing the viewer to /events/aggregator/RSS and similar events-specific feeds don't yield presentation of an event's dates in feed readers

I'm maybe 90% sure that I have encountered feeds that do lead to logical presentation of dates within a feed reader.

On that basis, I'm changing the subject line of this ticket; AFAIK the issue is not limited to Plone (RSS portlet) presentation of Plone feeds.

comment:4 in reply to: ↑ 3 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin

feeds that do lead to logical presentation of dates within a feed reader.

The When: that's prominent in Safari views of  http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/uk%40holiday.calendar.google.com/public/basic is more like it but still, I recall seeing feeds that are more event-friendly. I'll continue to search.

comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin

Discussion at  http://groups.google.com/group/p4a-user/browse_thread/thread/a5a5c509a503377 sounds promising :)

Dates in RSS feeds from calendar…

comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin

  • Type changed from Bug to Feature Request
  • Summary changed from /events/aggregator/RSS and similar events-specific feeds don't yield presentation of an event's dates in feed readers to /events/aggregator/RSS and similar events-specific feeds should optionally yield presentation of an event's dates

With thanks to Jon Stahl: I see a code suggestion at  http://n2.nabble.com/Need-event-start-date%2C-instead-of-creation-date%2C-in-RSS-feed-tp1490372p1491871.html

Respecting  Nick's comment in the same thread I'm changing the summary of this ticket and converting

  • from Bug
  • to Feature Request.

comment:7 Changed 7 years ago by nd51

+1 to this feature request

comment:8 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin

  • Cc nd51 added

comment:9 Changed 7 years ago by hannosch

  • Milestone changed from 3.x to Future

comment:10 Changed 7 years ago by grahamperrin

If/when  PLIP 246 becomes reality  in Plone core  or as an add-on then there may be less demand/desire for event-centric RSS.

comment:11 Changed 7 years ago by hannosch

  • Component changed from RSS to Infrastructure

comment:12 Changed 4 years ago by davisagli

  • Component changed from Infrastructure to General

comment:13 Changed 4 years ago by kleist

  • Status changed from new to confirmed

comment:14 Changed 3 years ago by eleddy

  • Status changed from confirmed to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix

This ticket has not been modified in over 9 months. In another brazen attempt to clean this tracker up, this is closed. If you really, REALLY care about this ticket, please re-verify that it is still an issue on the current supported releases (4.2 or 4.3) and reopen. Better yet, submit a pull request to fix the bug and then close the bug properly. We <3 you and all of your effort, but we can't go on like this anymore. I hope you aren't too mad and we can still be friends. Hugs.

comment:15 Changed 2 years ago by dpc22

  • Status changed from closed to reopened
  • Version set to 4.2
  • Resolution wontfix deleted

We have just run into exactly this problem using Plone 4.2.6.

The event start date is a much more useful piece of data than the last modified/effective date for an RSS feed of events.

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