RSS order

I've not checked but I would imagine they're sorted by publication date.
Since yours are all the same then they'll be considered equivalent.

I'm pretty sure that the specification for RSS requires a full date and
time in the pubDate field so try adding that in the appropriate format?

Thank you for that Alex, it seems like a feasible explanation.

I will try some testing in the morning, removing the pub date and see if starts sorting by another field.

Not sure if it needs the pub date, if it does, I could always make them static to put the items in the right order.

Lots to think about!

I will report back in the interests of completeness.

Thanks

James

Ok, removed pubDate to give me;

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Lecture Rooms</title>
<link>www.caw.ac.uk</link>
<description>Lecture Rooms</description>
<lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 06:00:03 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<item>
<title>Lecture Room 108</title>
<description>-</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Lecture Room 109</title>
<description>
09:00 - Level 2 Diploma in Veterinary Care Assistants - Full Time - CVCAFT1409
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Lecture Room 111</title>
<description>
09:30 - Level 3 Extended Diploma in Animal Management - ACL3DP14
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Lecture Room 113</title>
<description>
09:00 - Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing Full Time - CVN3FT1409
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Grooming Parlour</title>
<description>-</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

and still it orders them wrong, last one then second one then first then third!

Any other ideas?

thanks

james

If you don't have any date items it should leave them alone... so it is odd that it isn't.

You could try and disable the date parsing altogether to see if that is an issue, you'd need to edit modules/ticker.module.php on Line: 650.

You'd add:
$feed->enable_order_by_date(false);

Failing that... You don't need a pubDate to be a valid feed, but it might be better to put that date in there, with it set to the order you want them to appear. It will response to any of these element types: <atom:published>, <atom:updated>, <atom:issued>, <atom:modified>, <pubDate> or <dc:date>

Bit of an update on this, its been ages since I had a look!

Ok, I made that change in ticker.module.php and on the Design window in Xibo, it is in order, but on the client it isnt!

Is there any properties to change on the client?

Thanks

James