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<p>Hi <span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Sheraaz,</font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Many thanks for this, but what version are you using? I'm using 3.2.3 and 3.3.6 and it does not appear to make any difference. Whereas,
I know it should. I am running epadmin reload eprints and restarting apache.</font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">I also require this for staff profiles.</font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Thanks.</font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Regards,</font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Malcolm.</font> </span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 01 November 2012 23:19<br>
<b>To:</b> Malcolm Bodger<br>
<b>Cc:</b> eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Date order of RSS feed<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Hi Malcolm</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">I have finally managed to find the solution and it is pretty simple. I haven’t tried the plugin that you pointed out.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Like I had mentioned before that the data from the mysql database was correctly ordered but it only messed up when exporting to a file. So I looked up the RSS
export file which should be located here (for Eprints 3.2) {path to your eprints installation}/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Export. Look for the file RSS.pm for (RSS1.0). Find the line;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">my $list = $opts{list}->reorder( "-datestamp" );
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">and change it to</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">my $list = $opts{list}->reorder( "-date" );</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">This will order the eprints by the date published. Restart your httpd service and all should be good.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">I am using feed2js to pull staff publications from our repository to individual staff profiles on our university’s faculty websites.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Good luck.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Sheraaz Buksh</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size:10pt"> Malcolm Bodger [mailto:M.Bodger@westminster.ac.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> 02 November 2012 3:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sheraaz Buksh; eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Date order of RSS feed</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">Hi Sheraaz,</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">I was pointed to a plugin:</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black"><a href="http://files.eprints.org/492/" target="_blank">http://files.eprints.org/492/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">But I can't get it to work, so please let me know if you can.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Malcolm.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color:black; font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color:black; font-size:10pt"> Sheraaz Buksh [sheraaz.a.buksh@usp.ac.fj]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 31 October 2012 22:49<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Malcolm Bodger<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Date order of RSS feed</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Hi there</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">I have been investigating the same issue. Turning on sql logging on my test server I found out that the results returned from the mysql server upon generating
the RSS feed appear to be in the correct order. However, this order is somewhat manipulated when exporting it to a file.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">I have even tried $new_list = $list->reorder( “date” ); to reorder the list by date straight after the search function is performed but it doesn’t help.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Any ideas will be appreciated.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Regards</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Sheraaz</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Malcolm Bodger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 31 October 2012 12:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EP-tech] Date order of RSS feed</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">Hi,</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">I'm having a problem with the RSS feed in that I would like the output in published date order, not the order deposited.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Using RSS2 I see the deposited date appear as a heading and the published date in brackets in the text. I would like the heading to be the published date. Can anyone advise on this?</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">Thanks,</span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Malcolm. </span></p>
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