Speerio NewsWire DNN is a complete solution for managing and publishing RSS feed channels on DotNetNuke portals. Using NewsWire, DNN portals can publish categorized RSS feed channels that aggregate portal and external content. The feeds are searchable.

Included is a story browser that displays RSS stories in a paginated view and also enables you to display an RSS feed with an XSLT transform.

Feeds are cached based on the TTL value specified in the feed so bandwidth usage is optimized. The module also includes an API that allows module developers to add/delete/update module content as stories in the channels managed by the module.

This is a beta release and still has some wrinkles so please be gentle. I apologize, but the documentation is incomplete and not up-to-par; however, you can review it at http://help.speerio.net/newswire/100.

Details and download it as http://www.speerio.net

Nik

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Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]

Thanks Nik,

Just downloaded Newswire and I'm looking forward to using it. Does anyone have any idea of how I can create a feed extracting data from a sql database ?

Although the documentation is incomplete I think it looks great with RoboHelp and I would like to use it for user manuals. The only problem being the licence for using RoboHelp is a 1000$ pleasure unless I'm mistaken.

Thanks again

Leif

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Leif

Hi Leif,

W.r.t. the SQL feed question, you can create a channel with NewsWire. After that it's just a matter of writing script to loop through your data while calling FeedManager.UpdateStory(). You could have the DNN scheduler do this at intervals to keep the feed current or you could do run it as needed.

You are correct about RoboHelp...it costs $999. Come October, anyone will be able to offer high-quality documentation with their DNN portals/modules at a much lower cost. Speerio and LiquidPolygon have teamed up with Macromedia to create DocuScript, a service for producing and hosting software documentation and demos. Look for announcements on this in the near future. If you are interested in an advance trial, drop me a line at support at speerio dot net.

Nik

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Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]

Nik-

I'm having a problem installing NW. I get this:


Failure Exception: System.ArgumentException: Invalid File or Directory attributes value. at System.IO.File.SetAttributes(String path, FileAttributes fileAttributes) at DotNetNuke.Installer.PaDnnInstallerBase.CreateFile(String FullFileName, Byte[] Buffer) at DotNetNuke.Installer.PaDnnInstallerBase.CreateBinFile(PaFile File) at DotNetNuke.Installer.PaDnnInstallerBase.CreateFiles(PaFolder Folder) at DotNetNuke.Installer.PaDnnInstallerBase.Install(PaFolderCollection folders) at DotNetNuke.Installer.PaInstaller.Install()

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Regards,

Doug Smith

This error indicates that the PA installer cannot write the module's assembly to your DNN "bin" folder. Make sure the ASPNET account has write access to the folder (at least while doing the install...you can reset them back post-installation).

Nik

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Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]

Hi Nik,

Played with the demo on the site. Looks good.

Is there a way you can have multiple RSS URLs in a channel to aggregate them. For example, I want to create an ASP.NET channel that is an aggregate of all the ASP.NET news feeds.

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Warm Regards,

Ashvil

If I am interpreting your question as intended, then the answer is yes. You would do it like this:

- Create a new portal channel -- say "My ASP.Net Feeds"
- Click on the pencil icon once this channel shows up in the grid to go to the Story Editor
- Add each feed as a Story with the link for the story set to the RSS URL of the feed
- Done

Since we're talking about other news feeds, my assumption is that although the feed content will change regularly, the feed URLs will remain more or less the same and therefore a candidate for manual maintenance as described above.

If this is not the case, then you can also have code to maintain the stories (in this case the stories are really RSS feeds) via the supplied API.

And finally, you can ignore the NewsWire capabilities altogether and use the OPML creation capabilities of the underlying Raccoom.Xml framework to create an OPML file which technically is the most appropriate format for a collection of RSS feeds. Not many people are aware of this or have a reader so the first option may be the best in this situation.

Nik

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Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]

Hey Nik - another great module!
Thanks

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Regards, Nick

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Hi Nik,

I added a channel - My ASP.NET feeds on your demo site.
Added MSDN ASP.NET feed and Weblogs.asp.net feeds as stories ...

But when I view the channel, it does not show me the contents of both the feeds, it shows me the two feeds only.

What I want is to see ...

Story 1 from weblogs
Story 2 from weblogs
Story 1 from MSDN
Story 3 from weblogs

sorted by date and time....
Basically, I want one channel with stories from different rss feeds sorted by date and time.

Is there something I am doing wrong

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Warm Regards,

Ashvil

Hi Ashvil,

Nope, you aren't doing anything wrong.

The current design does not do anything with the link entered for a story other than display it. This is an interesting feature idea though and I did not realize this potential from your previous post.

Thinking out aloud, if there were a field available within the Story element it could indicate that the URL was itself a feed and it should be fetched and aggregated. There isn't such a field in the RSS spec, but let's say for a moment that there was, how much recursion should occur? What if a story referred to a feed, which had stories that referred to feeds and so on. I guess this is easily handled by only getting the first level.

I use a hack right now to specify that the default datagrid formatting for a feed should be overridden with a XSLT stylesheet. The hack is simple...append the name of the XSLT file (stored in the StyleSheets sub-folder of the module folder) to the end of the URL preceded by a # character. This is benign for RSS feeds since it is an inline anchor indicator in a URL and RSS feeds have no concept of anchors. I could extend this to the Link field in a channel story. If #fetch was appended, then the link is assumed to be a feed and the stories are retrieved and aggregated into the same resultset.

I have to ponder this for a bit and if I don't come up with any arguments against, I will add this capability.

Nik

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Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]

Hi Nik,

NewsWire reminded me about QuikChannel, a product I wanted to build in 1997.

Let me know if you decide to add the aggregation capability.

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Warm Regards,

Ashvil

Ashvil,

This is a great idea. Some design changes to make but worth the effort. I will implement it, along with other suggestions I got from the community, in the final release...should be sometime next week.

Nik

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Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]

Hi Nik,

Do we need to open up any firewall ports (Corporate Intranet) to allow RSS feeds or does it use 80/443?

We haven't used RSS feeds as yet but would like to do so.

Thanks

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Andy

I forgot to ask in my previous email Nik ... Will the source be made available?

Thanks

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Andy

RSS feeds are XML files delivered over HTTP, so 80/443 is fine. I will release the source as soon as I finish the few enhancements people have requested.

Nik

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Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]

Great ... Thanks

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Andy

Hi Nik,

Any date for the updated release. Wanted to use it for Gyanquest.org

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Warm Regards,

Ashvil

Nik,

Is there any plans to update this module for DNN 3?? 

Thanks, Dave

 

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NewsWire, and all my modules will be updated. I am just a little slow at doing it because in addition to doing the DNN3 conversion, I am also taking it as an opportunity to add more features.

Nik

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Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]

Nik

I see on your site you say you have two free modules, but I cannot see any download link.  Are your free modules only available to subscribers?  I have been a registered user on your site for nearly a year.  I had downloaded yoyur V2 modules, but I can't find any links to download your two V3 free modules.