[Koha-bugs] [Bug 7843] Create RSS for OPAC news

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7843

--- Comment #3 from Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> ---
(In reply to Viktor Sarge from comment #2)

> * The news items have no individual links since there is no graphical view
> of individual news items in the way that a blog would have. Is this a
> problem for RSS-readers?

I think it could be potentially confusing. Maybe we should add an id to each
news item header row and link to that as an in-page anchor?
opac-main.pl#newsitem4

> * Should we add additional metadata like author, administrator, publishing
> dates etc?

I would add publish date. We don't store author or administrator information
with individual news items so we can't show anything relevant there.

> * Currently the feed will display news for all libraries + your home branch
> if you access it while logged in. Would only "all libraries" be better? Or
> maybe all libraries + every item for individual branches?

I would assume that anyone who was looking at the RSS feed would be doing so in
a feed reader outside the context of a logged-in session, so I'm not sure the
home branch items are going to get seen. I don't like that the feed a logged-in
user would see in their RSS reader would be different from the news they see on
the site, but I'm not sure there's a better way to handle it. A feed for all
libraries might be inappropriate or simply too much data. One option might be
to offer the user a choice?

 - "All libraries" news plus the user's library
 - "All libraries" news plus news for all libraries

I don't know how savvy users are with multiple RSS feeds.

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