8 Replies Latest reply on Jan 5, 2016 2:26 PM by srivers

Is it possible to have rss feeds display post summaries?

wattssw Dec 18, 2015 8:47 AM

I found documentation https://docs.jivesoftware.com/jive_forums_gold/5.5.8/documentation/rss.html suggesting to add full=false as a query string.

This does not seem to work though... https://communities.bmc.com/blogs/application-security-news/feeds/posts?full=false

Re: Is it possible to have rss feeds display post summaries?

mcollinge Dec 21, 2015 5:24 AM (in response to wattssw)

I think you may need to set a sys prop as well, although it says it should default to 255 chars.

feeds.summarysize = (how many characters)

There's another sys prop that sets whether the feeds default to showing full text or summaries;

feeds.full = true
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  wattssw Dec 30, 2015 8:09 AM (in response to mcollinge)
  
  Thanks Matt. Could you explain how or where to set the sys props?
  
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    Scott A Johnson Dec 31, 2015 9:41 AM (in response to wattssw)
    
    Hi Stephen,
    
    System Properties can be set in the Admin Console.
    
    Navigate to System->Management->System Properties.
    
    You can do a page search for the property name, or scroll down, it should be in alpha order.
    
    Click the Edit icon on the right side, change the value, click Save Property and voila!
    
    If you dont find the property in the list, you can add the new property at the bottom of that page.
    
    FYI, some, but not all, properties require a restart to take effect. An incomplete list of system properties and their purposes, can be found here: Undocumented Jive System Properties
    
    Hope this helps,
    Scott
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srivers Jan 5, 2016 11:15 AM (in response to wattssw)

It is not making a difference for me either. I am on Jive X cloud so the system properties are not an option. The System->Management->Feeds section has this as an option but it does not make a difference.
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  Scott A Johnson Jan 5, 2016 11:24 AM (in response to srivers)
  
  Strange, in my Jive-N cloud instance, if I change the settings in the Feeds section I immediately see the effects. When changing from Full Text to Summary the Description field of the RSS feed is limited to the number of characters specified.
  
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    srivers Jan 5, 2016 12:17 PM (in response to Scott A Johnson)
    
    I have this site, Republic Help Updates , set to summary 255 in our public support blog in our Jive X community.
    
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      Scott A Johnson Jan 5, 2016 12:53 PM (in response to srivers)
      
      Ah, yeah, looks like System Blogs do not pick up this feed limit properly.
      
      Edit: Blog Posts in general do not pickup this limit.
      
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        srivers Jan 5, 2016 2:26 PM (in response to Scott A Johnson)
        
        I switched to a /content feed filtered down to what I need. I wish it used usernames for the author name and not the email address, so annoying NO public community wants emails in the picture. If I am logged out it shows only the main email address of Jive. Not much though was put into that.
        
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