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Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module? [solved]

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Is this possible? I've tried every RSS related module available with no luck. I hear that CGFeedMaker works well for that, but I can't figure out how to set it up. If someone could help me with this I would appreciate it.
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If you look into the module, probably in Help or from what I here in the admin of the module there is supposed to be a sample news module template for it...

I've never used it but here it is dead easy...
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Still can't seem to get it right. I did everything the help said, and my feed link is being generated as an empty page.

http://hyrulefacility.com/index.php?mac ... eturnid=15
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I would say CGFeedmaker....

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Yeah I'm using that. If you check out my previous post, you'll see the error.
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Hi VincentD

Can you give us some more information about this?

Your System Information,
Used templates,
etc.

And CGFeedmaker needs pretty urls with hierachy set true.

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Aye, there's my problem. How do I set up pretty urls?

Nevermind, figured it out.
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Excuse my double post. ;)

Now I have another problem. The feed is up and working, but it's getting the feed information from the news module. The thing is, I want it to grab the information from the blogs module, but I do not know how to do this.

Anyone?
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The template you use may have calls for the News module in it, look thru it for any and replace with the blog call/name...

Or the tag you use calls it, I've never used it so look thru the whole thing for instances of News being called...
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:-\ I've done that... Maybe not good enough. I'll post it here, maybe someone else will want to look it over.

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    {* an example of how to create a feed from a call to the news module *}
    {* you can use any smarty variable that is available in the news summary template *}
    {* you can substitute this logic with output from any module that supports a summary
       view, or possibly get artistic and mix output from different modules *}
    {news assign='junk'}
EDIT: Ah ha! Finally figured out what that means. Where it says {news assign='junk'}, I just replaced that with {Blogs}, and presto!
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