Hi,

I have the latest Events module setup using RSS with the "Date to Use" set to  "Event Date". The RSS output is being read by the core DNN Newsfeed module. It works great, except that the calendar entries are sorted from the future date to the current date. It needs to be the other way around: current date to the future (like you would normally read a calendar).

I would have assumed this would be the default sort order.

Any way to change it?

Thanks.

Thanks for the reply.

You state, "The module outputs the events to the feed based on earliest date to latest date in all instances, no matter what you set the Date to Use as." But, according the tooltips in the Events / RSS settings, the "Date to use:" is described as "Select which date to use as the Publish Date in the RSS feed"

Am I misreading this or am I just mis-understand what it means? Shouldn't I be using the "event date" as the Publish date?

Regardless, I tried all three options for the "Date to use" and they all are sorted by oldest date to the most recent date in the Newsfeed module. So I guess that's where the issue is.

I did look the code for the various XML transformations for the Newsfeed module, and the sort order doesn't appear to be a function of the transformation.

Thanks.

Jim,

This is taken from the post youy link to. So you can see that others have recognised that the actual display sort is done by the news feed module. What you control by setting Date to Use is what is used to sort on by the newsfeed module.  I probably shouldn't have mentioned what order the events module puts in out in, because it is irrelevant.

The pubDate mentioned is what you are setting by changing the Date to Use setting. So the tooltip is right, it says thye Publication Date...

Bear in mind the newsfeed module outputs latest first, because it is a news module. It shows what is the newestt news. Logical really, you wouldn't be happy if your newspaper showed you old news as being the most important. pubDate indicates when this news item was created, allowing the newsfeed module to identify what is newest.

Yes others have asked the same question, and when posted in the events forum (I don't monitor other forums) I give the same answer.

Unfortunately my XSLT knowledge isn't good enough to help. There is an implication in the thread you link to that the sort order can be changed, but I'm afraid I  don't know how that is done in the Newsfeed module.

Roger

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