505246 - [ForumUX] RSS feed icon in URL bar for forums and feeds for individual forum topics

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Forum, task, P1)

Description

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Right now we can set up a watch for every Contributors forum post. See <https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=3&comments_parentId=388579>. We should turn that into an RSS feed, that is available via web feed in the URLbar.

Comment 1

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

Not sure how hard this would be yet.

Comment 2

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

isn't this done in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454253 ?

Comment 3

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> isn't this done in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454253 ?
It seems to be.

Comment 4

[Christopher Lynch [:Christopher]]

I would love to have the feed delivered to my Google Reader.

Comment 5

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

It turns out that RSS feeds for individual forums was implemented via bug 454253, but not enabled on support.mozilla.com. I turned it on. But even through we have a web feed URL, there's still no icon in the location bar, when accessing a forum. I changed the summary to make this about offering the web feed via the Location bar.

Comment 6

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

Adding a link to the header meta information will do the trick. Something like:
---------
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed for [forum name]" href="https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-forum_rss.php?forumId=[forumId]" />
---------
in the header tag.

Comment 7

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

So the feed in bug 454253 only gives a feed for the entire forum. Do we want functionality to watch a forum thread?

Comment 8

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I don't see why not. :-)
To be clear, when viewing the list of threads (e.g. https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=en-US&forumId=3 ) only the forum feed would be offered in the Location bar. When viewing a thread (e.g. https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&comments_parentId=385182&forumId=3 ) only the thread feed would be offered in the Location bar.

Comment 9

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

Attachment: patch, v1

This adds a pref to enable individual feeds for forum topics, and links forum feeds and forum topic feeds to existing forum pages.

To test, remember to enable these RSS feeds in tiki-admin.php?page=rss

Comment 10

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

r49012 / r49013

Comment 11

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

1.4 stuff again, argh!
Anyway, r49014 on the forumux branch as well.

Comment 12

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

r49018 / r49017
Backed out on stage/prod.

Comment 13

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

See it at:
https://sumo-forumux.stage.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1
and
https://sumo-forumux.stage.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&comments_parentId=300101

Comment 14

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

I'd rather leave this open until I commit to trunk/prod. Right now it's only on forumux branch.

Comment 15

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Since bug 515477 is now fixed, shouldn't https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&comments_parentId=300101 have the RSS feed icon in the URL bar now?

(https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1 works fine, so part of this patch made it?)

Comment 16

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

Good point stephend. Enabled the pref as per comment 9. Check it out now!

https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=3&comments_parentId=388579

Comment 17

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

On that URL, I'm now getting "An unexpected error has occurred!"

Comment 18

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

Attachment: patch, v2

Apparently it doesn't like the unique ID. I added a & before topicId and made concat look prettier :)

Comment 19

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Comment on attachment 400090 [details] [diff] [review]
patch, v2

WFM

Comment 20

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

r51464 / r51465

Comment 21

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED;

1. On https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-admin.php?page=rss, I enabled "Feed for individual forum topics".
2. Loaded https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=3&comments_parentId=388579, clicked on the RSS icon in Firefox's location bar, and got the forum's feed [1] in reverse chronological order (so, most recent first).

1. https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-forum_rss.php?forumId=3&comments_parentId=388579