Catalogue comments and rss filters

Hi,

I have a couple of questions, on howto.

1. Is there a way of being able to filter an rss feed to only show a particular catalogue, and not all of them. I am trying to use the rss feed block to show new entries for one of my catalogues.
2. I would like to enable comments by default for my catalogue entries, however by default it looks like you have to enable comments in the meta for each catalogue entry. I am probably missing something obvious here.

Sorry for the questions. Had many more a couple of days ago, but persisted in the excellent tutorials.
 

Not sure about your first question, I would expect there is way though. As for your second question I believe whatever you choose (comments or no comments) becomes the default after so many entries, can't remember how many entries but pretty sure Chris said it learns from your choices.

No need to apologise for asking questions, I still do and I've been here a long time now.

Cheers King.
I am using a Catalogue for micro computer projects where there are a few fields for the respective poster to complete. I am now trying to simplify this by having one of the options ie. Comments, automatically enabled. Feedback is a big part of the projects being listed. I would expect that it should be a matter of a simple field template edit, using simple loosely as I cant't find it.

Ok. I am partly there with the catalogues in the rss feeds.

I am having to identify each category i want in the feed via:

backend.php?type=RSS2&mode=catalogues&select=13,17

I would prefer to have a listing of all entries under a particular catalogue.

Comments- It's the mode average for existing records that becomes the default. i.e. over 50% allow, means default is allow. If you need to mass-change, do an SQL query.

UPDATE cms_catalogue_entries SET allow_comments=1 WHERE c_name='foobar';

RSS- Yes, you can use the select parameter. If you have a tree catalogue you can achieve what you want using the Selectcode '*' feature on the root category. E.g. if the root category is #5, you can do select=5*.

If not using a tree it would be more difficult. If categories were created in bulk you could use '-' to do ranges.

This will allow you to use a catalogue name in the select parameter, so long as it doesn't look like a Selectcode string that works on numeric IDs.

sources/hooks/systems/rss/catalogues.php

We'll include this in 10.0.1.

Thankyou Chris.

Using the file Chris attached you can use the following:

backend.php?type=RSS2&mode=catalogues&catalogue_categories&select=projects

For my site this will call every entry from my projects catalogue including all subsequent category entries. It ignores any other catalogues. ie. FAQ

Thankyou again Chris.