Dave is the planet guru, so he may have some better answers, but i'll
take a stab ...
Brian Blakeley wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying to get my head around the Planet feature in Roller
2.1 and I am hoping that some of you has some insights to share.
Here are the issues that are perplexing me:
1. Cache Issues:
After a lot of messing around with the configurations Planet suddenly
starting working at CheBlogs.com/ But, I cannot locate any cache
files.
The directory that I set up was {user.home}/roller_data/planet-cache and
I can't see that I am getting any error messages so I assume that the
program is writing the cache files somewhere on my disc.
based on what you said in #3 below it sounds like your planet
functionality is not working. local blogs are pulled using a separate
mechanism which does not require the cache files i don't think.
What is the naming pattern for these files so that I can try to locate
them?
Is it possible that the Planet is spinning without using a cache file?
i don't think so.
2. Internal Blogs on Planet:
I ran the synchronizing task and it seems to have worked in that all the
weblogs on CheBlogs.com are now being checked for new items for the
Planet.
But, this is not what I want. I want the subscribed blogs only on my
Planet page.
eeks, that is a bug/rfe then.
How do I edit the Planet setup to only track the blogs that I manually
add to the list using the administration interface?
not sure that you can do that, but that definitely needs to be supported.
3. External Blogs on Planet:
I have added an outside blog (ie external to CheBlogs.com) and it does
not seem to be getting included on the Planet.
How do I get the task to check the external blog sites properly?
you'd have to consult the logs to see why this isn't working.
-- Allen
These are the three main (meaning things I can remember right now)
issues that I think I have with the Planet feature at CheBlogs.com/.
Thanks for taking the time to consider this email and please if I have
simply missed the documentation - Just point me to it and I will go
awhile for a bit and try to sort these issues out with the
documentation, before I post more questions.
Thanks everyone!
Brian
