ForumRSSHandler & sorting of postings

Hi all,

Can someone help me with this?

I have a sorting problem when I call the forum RSS handler without a PostID like this: /forums/rss.aspx?ForumID=3&Mode=0

The threads are sorted by lastpost/descending, which is good. But I always get the thread's first posting instead of the last. I checked CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.ForumRSSHandler, but I can't find a property for the sorting order of posts.

Anyone? Thanks! 

 

Hi SriVeenaDeniz,

Since the feed you are looking at is a feed for a forum (ie. list of threads) we do not return individual posts, but just the thread starters. If you want to see individual posts, you should subscribe to the thread itself. Alternatively, if you're aggregator supports it, we do push a link to posts via commentrss.

Either way, while you *can* change the sort order for the threads (in the configuration of ForumThreadQuery in the ForumRSSHandler) you do not have that same control with posts.

Hope that helps...

Hi Jose,

Thanks for your answer. I understand that showing the most recent post isn't possible this way.

Do you happen to know what the reason is for showing the first post? It doesn't sound logical to me when you think in RSS terms.

On one hand it shows the forums in which there's just been posted, but on the other hand it doesn't show that specific post.

While I think I understand what you're looking for, I'm not sure I agree that the existing method isn't logical. The key issue is one of context. In general, between the subject and body of a thread starter, one can gather the gist of the conversation/question/problem. On the other hand, the most recent post can often lend little value (in the area of context). Many threads end with "Thanks!" or "It's now working!" or even "BUMP!". I wouldn't necessarily agree that given those posts I would have any idea whether the topic is of value or not.

Hope that helps clarify things...

 

True if you look at it that way. But an option to show the last post would've been handy.

Well, can't have it all. Thanks anyway!  

Hi, if you enter in our site you could reproduce the same problem in the last comments from the forum. When somebody replies, the rss feed updates and it shows the first comment instead of the last one (and also with the date) The page: http://www.mundofox.com/la/series/nip-tuck The rss: http://comunidad.mundofox.com/forums/rss.aspx?ForumID=93&Mode=0 is there any way to achieve this? regards, Martin