rss feed for categories with subcategories

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Hmmmm . . . moving to Feature Requests forum.

What is needed is separate settings for the RSS feed.

Currently the items listed in the RSS feed "use the same query" as the display.
So I thought it may be possible to add an IF or two in the category model.
BUT it appears to be a bit more complicated.

It appears that currently a few different settings affect what items appear in the feed:
- showing sub-categories
- layout used
- pagination settings
Did not expect layout and pagination to affect the feed items displayed.

Many users do not want to display all sub-category items in the main category.
But they do want the items from the sub-categories in the RSS feed.

So what is needed is some separate settings for the category RSS feed:
- show sub-categories
- number of items to show in the feed
- ordering
- ? ? ?

Any other ideas/comments?


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This is how we set up our sites,

These are FC categories with example:
levels:category:example

1st: FlexiConentWebsite (The name of the client)
|_2nd: Components
|__3rd:Flexicontent
|___4th:1.5
|___4th:2.5
|_2nd: Extensions
|__3rd: 1.5
|__3rd: 2.5

Has you can see, EVERYTHING is under one FC category and this is on purpose, the 2 main reasons is for FlexiAccess this way we can control the ACL and the 2 reasons is to have a category that has a list of all articles, why? so we can have an RSS with all articles and the homepage can also have a list of all articles. Also we create a hidden link to our client to have list of all articles to be easy to update them.

Hope this helps.