How to prevent a page show up multiple times in a RSS feed?

JP Cornelissen

I have created an RSS feed by using the Confluence feed builder (based on favorits, limit to 10 items and within the last 5 days). Now I often get the same page showing up multiple times in my feed. They even show the same author and date+time stamp.

For example, on 23 January in the morning, I edited a page myself. On 24 january when arriving in the office this page is listed in my feed 4 times!

Is this a wrong feed configuration or an issue with the Confluence RSS feed?

Thanks

Jim Wahl

My main concern was Google, which does see the change (after an hour or so) and updates its global cache with the new content. Again, if the <id> matches an existing entry <id>, the existing entry is updated. If the <id> is new (or versioned), a new entry is created.

Therefore, by not versioning the <id> tag, you prevent duplicate entries. With Google, end users will get the new content once they refresh the feed. However, the edited post will still be marked as read if they've viewed it previously.

I also experimented with Outlook, which does not appear to update the feed content after an edit. But if the <id> tag is versioned you get duplicate entries, same as Google.

Hope this helps you---let me know if I haven't explained it well or if you'd like me to test something.