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Can't disable database category rss feeds?

Submitted Rimi, Apr 25 2012 02:59 PM | Last updated Apr 25 2012 02:59 PM

Maybe I just don't know how to do this?

1) Create a database
2) Create lots of categories
3) Go to the database settings and disable RSS by setting it to 0
4) Click on the rss icon in the bottom left corner of the skin and RSS feeds for all your categories are displaying.
5) The RSS settings for each category don't seem to have any effect either
6) This happens when you click on the feed.
The requested RSS feed could not be retrieved

So maybe its just an issue with checking which feeds are available?

Status:	Cannot Reproduce
Version:	2.3.1
Fixed In:

21 Comments

Rimi

Apr 25 2012 03:00 PM

Scratch number 6. I can access the feed with an account that has access to the DB.

So the question is, how exactly am I supposed to disable these feeds?

Rimi

Apr 25 2012 03:11 PM

And now one of my categories has magically disappeared...yet the settings for that category are exactly the same as the other categories.

Marcher Technologies

Apr 25 2012 05:31 PM

Re-cache the rss_output_cache? just wondering if the issue is there.

Rimi

Apr 25 2012 07:05 PM

Re-cache the rss_output_cache? just wondering if the issue is there.

That put the missing category back lol

So I suppose I can go in and exclude each category from the RSS and then recache?

Rimi

Apr 25 2012 07:07 PM

Nope that did not work at all.

Rimi

Apr 25 2012 07:11 PM

Ohey the same thing is happening for articles. I didn't even know that I had set it to exclude my article categories from the RSS, but that's what the setting says yet they still show up.

Marcher Technologies

Apr 25 2012 07:39 PM

...... hit the database config.. disable it there... same for articles configuration to disable it for now.... i don't know how that stopgap could fail.... not ideal, but until fix is provided.

Rimi

Apr 25 2012 08:28 PM

Isn't that what I did in step 3? I set the setting to 0 which should disable it.

Marcher Technologies

Apr 25 2012 08:30 PM

ugg... soz.... what... in the deuce was changed? i wasn't getting this with .0, i have the same issue myself now that I've looked again.

Rimi

Apr 25 2012 08:32 PM

Alright so it is a bug. This is a really frustrating one since I need to create 46 categories. T_T

bfarber

Apr 26 2012 09:10 AM

I disabled my articles database by entering 0 for number of items to include, and it no longer shows in the RSS feeds dropdown. I did the same for 3 categories and those 3 category RSS feed links disappeared from the menu. I then rebuilt the "rss_output_cache" and those 4 links are still not present in the menu.

I can't reproduce this in any fashion. I even tested a regular database + categories without issue.

Rimi

Apr 26 2012 09:59 AM

Thanks for checking bfarber. I put everything to 0 and it seems to work, but then what exactly is the "Exclude category from RSS" supposed to do, if not disable the RSS for that category?

Rimi

Apr 26 2012 10:00 AM

Additionally in the "Number of records in RSS feed" setting for database categories can the description of the field be modified to include the whole "put 0 to disable" bit?

Marcher Technologies

Apr 26 2012 11:52 AM

Thanks for checking bfarber. I put everything to 0 and it seems to work, but then what exactly is the "Exclude category from RSS" supposed to do, if not disable the RSS for that category?

that.... why have an option the system does not honor?
I'm used to not worrying about the number when I'm disabling it which is why this tripped me up... if I mark to exclude I kind of expect it to.

Marcher Technologies

Apr 26 2012 11:58 AM

also... on articles... i have 0 items to include in feed... on all categories, the articles configuration, and am excluding, and have popped all my caches... that menu item isn't going anywhere T.T