(Originally posted on my DotNetNuke.com Blog) The beta for the new version of the DNN News Feeds module has been released to all those that have contacted me expressing interest in being a beta tester. This version of the module has the following changes:
Feed Viewing
- Ability to select sort by field (date or title) and sort order (ascending or descending).
- Ability to select maximum number of articles to display.
- Ability to select how often to refresh a feed.
- Ability to have articles popup in a new window.
- Ability to select a pre-defined news channel for display.
News Channels
- Ability to create pre-defined aggregations of feeds in a news ‘channel’ at both the host and portal levels.
- Ability to re-syndicate news channels.
- Ability to activate and de-activate channels.
News Channel Feeds
- Ability to manually refresh an individual feed.
- Ability to set a feed refresh rate.
News Categories
- Ability to group news channels by category.
- Ability to re-syndicate a news category.
General
- Ability to automatically use RSS 2.0, 1.0, 0.91, 0.90 and Atom feeds without using a custom XSLT template.
- Ability to aggregate feeds of multiple types into a single feed.
- Ability to select the feed format to re-syndicate feeds in for channels, categories and individual feeds.
- Caching of all feeds (feeds, channels and categories) to improve performance.
Please do note that this is a beta release and is not recommended for use in a production environment. This is one reason I have only released it to those who have volunteered to do beta testing for this module. Anyone else interested in being a part of that group can email me at jmcwilliam@flatburger.com.
