Will78
28-Jan-2006, 11:25 PM
RSS Import Troubleshooting Steps
1.) Check the URL (open in browser)
View source (if it's in an iframe make sure you get the iframe's source)
- Doctype set? - Is it ISO-8859-1, VTF-8, or US-ASCII?
- Are there channel(s)?
- Is there at least a title, descripton?
2.) Is "RSS Import Enabled" set to yes?
3.) "RSS Import Into Forum" a valid postable forum?
4.) Not updating automatically? Is task present? Is the icon green or red (red indicats it is not running)?
RSS Explained:
Only ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, and US-ASCII are supported.
- This is a limitation in PHP's XML parser engine.
- Must not contain characters outside of set doctype
Site must be able to make a socket connection
- Try importing our company forum feed to test)
RSS feed must be/contain:
- Proper doctype (may still work without)(defaults to ISO-8859-1)
- Must contain a description, channel(s), title
- GUID - if not sent, we make one. If any data we base this on (title, link, & description) changes, the "GUID" changes & article can re-import this is the cause of duplicates
Same time articals posting is caused by the articals not sending a time. IPB generates current timestamp for use. As this runs on a task, articles will have the same times (Hour/Minute) each day (assuming the board is busy enough to run task at correct time)
1.) Check the URL (open in browser)
View source (if it's in an iframe make sure you get the iframe's source)
- Doctype set? - Is it ISO-8859-1, VTF-8, or US-ASCII?
- Are there channel(s)?
- Is there at least a title, descripton?
2.) Is "RSS Import Enabled" set to yes?
3.) "RSS Import Into Forum" a valid postable forum?
4.) Not updating automatically? Is task present? Is the icon green or red (red indicats it is not running)?
RSS Explained:
Only ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, and US-ASCII are supported.
- This is a limitation in PHP's XML parser engine.
- Must not contain characters outside of set doctype
Site must be able to make a socket connection
- Try importing our company forum feed to test)
RSS feed must be/contain:
- Proper doctype (may still work without)(defaults to ISO-8859-1)
- Must contain a description, channel(s), title
- GUID - if not sent, we make one. If any data we base this on (title, link, & description) changes, the "GUID" changes & article can re-import this is the cause of duplicates
Same time articals posting is caused by the articals not sending a time. IPB generates current timestamp for use. As this runs on a task, articles will have the same times (Hour/Minute) each day (assuming the board is busy enough to run task at correct time)