[Building Sakai] News Tool Picker

[David Horwitz]

Hi Matthew,

Have you looked at Nuno's feeds tool? It includes something like what
your describing (called institional feeds) but the UI is somewhat
different to what you describe.

D

On 10/07/2010 01:03 PM, Matthew Buckett wrote:
> As part of a small project to promote content we're looking at
> providing a picker for URLs for the News Tool. The idea is that when
> someone is adding a news tool to  their site they have the ability to
> pick from an pre-populated list as well as entering the URL.
>
> To build this list (<500 items) we are looking at having a small bit
> of JavaScript/HTML to display the list and allow the user to select
> the item (RSS feed URL). The data to build the list will be loaded
> asynchronously. The source data providing the list of RSS feeds is
> formatted in RSS or OMPL and is hosted on another server (different
> domain) so to load it into a page in Sakai we have some options to get
> around cross domain requests:
>
> - Provide a small proxy which sites inside Sakai to allow the RSS/OPML
> to be served up from the domain of our sakai server, and then parse it
> in JavaScript.
> - Have a more complex proxy inside Sakai which transforms the RSS/OMPL
> into JSON(?).
> - Enhance the source system so it outputs JSONP which allows us to get
> around the cross domain request issue.
>
> Is there any interest in this picker feature in the Sakai community
> and if so which solution would you be interested in for loading the
> source data.
>
>