SourceGear Development Blog: Beta Secret #1 - RSS and Saved Queries

Beta Secret #1 - RSS and Saved Queries

Jeremy — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:27:00 -0600

For those of you trying the Fortress 1.1 server beta, here’s something that we added that is pretty cool. We publicly stated in the release notes that 1.1 has support for Saved Queries in the web client. What we haven’t mentioned yet is that you can also use saved queries in the RSS feeds.

To set up an RSS feed for a Fortress server, subscribe to a URL that looks like this (please pardon the wrapped URL):

http://FORTRESSSERVER/Fortress/Feeds/BugTrackingFeed.aspx?user=USERNAME &password=PASSWORD&pid=PROJECTID&qname=SAVEDQUERYNAME

I’ve set up an example feed for the guest7 account over on fortressbeta.sourcegear.com. Here’s the URL if you would like to subscribe to it, to see how it works in your aggregator.

Sample RSS Feed

"Beta Secret #1 - RSS and Saved Queries" by Jeremy

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:55:34 -0600

Thanks for pointing that out. It turns out that it's a bug related to the fact that the server name starts with "fortress". A string manipulation trimmed the URL incorrectly. This bug will be fixed in the next beta.

"Beta Secret #1 - RSS and Saved Queries" by Tom

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:05:25 -0600

Looks good. However, the item headings in the RSS feed link to URLs in the following format: http://fortress/ShowItem.aspx?pid=101&itemid=23 ... obviously won't work over the web. Any chance of correcting this in your feed so we can get a better idea of how the feature works?