Feature Request for user RSS trackers

[TCPlomp]

I have setup RSS-trackers for several users that I find interesting to read.
The link for such a tracker is:
http://forums.ni.com/rss/tracker?user.id=44753

The homepage for a tracker is:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/tracker
Which will forward to an empty tracker forum.

What I find more interesting is this page:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/tracker?user.id=44753

This will list all the messages of a given user, and I can see in a glimpse if their are unread messages in the thread

Could the homepage (as stored inside the RSS-feed) be changed to the user specific tracker page?

Ton

[Laura F.]

Hi Ton,

I looked into this previously and from what I could tell the behavior you describe is part of the RSS specification.  I subscribed to feeds at a number of different sites and they all behaved the same way ours did. 

One thing I did not try is using different readers.  I only have tried Google Reader so maybe some other readers behave differently?  I would be interested if you have examples of another reader or other sites with RSS feeds that behave more the way that you like.

Thanks for the suggestion!
Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments

[TCPlomp]

I haven't downloaded a tracker RSS feed, but the homepage is one of the fiels of the RSS scheme.
This can be set seperatly for every RSS feed, and would be welcome.
For my own tracker this is very usefull, I hit 'homepage' and see in a glimpse if anyone has responded to a thread I have written in.

Ton

[Laura F.]

Hi Ton,

I think I understand now - the link "TonP Tracker" goes to http://forums.ni.com/ni/tracker  no matter what RSS reader you are using or if you are just using the browser's built in functionality.  It should actually go the user's tracker (http://forums.ni.com/ni/tracker?user.id=44753 for example).

I will file it as a feature request.

Thanks!
Laura

[Ben]

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I will file it as a feature request.

Thanks!
Laura

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Hi Laura,

I read you post to that effect often. Do you have a list of bugs/issue/change request and does Lithium ever respond?

Sometimes it seems its easier to get a bug in LV fixed than the forums.

Curious,

Ben

[Laura F.]

Hi Ben,

I do maintain a list of feature suggestions and bugs that I report.  If the bug is a showstopper Lithium will fix it soon after I report it.  If it is a lower priority, Lithium files it as a bug report, just like NI files CARs for LabVIEW.  They then try to work these bug fixes and feature requests into their upgrades.  Of course they can't get everything in so I try to review during each upgrade which things that we reported have been fixed and then report it to the community like this post.

Thanks for asking,
Laura


Message Edited by Laura F. on 06-03-2008 09:07 AM