Feeds set-up for Aps

Here is some documentation for setting up feeds in Drupal 7 so that An iphone or Android ap can access the data.

The data brought together using Views and then output using the JSON from the "views_datasource" module.

  1. Install Views Datasource Module
  2. Turn on the submodule of "Views JSON" created by the datasouce module.
  3. Build your View using the Format of "JSON data document" with the following settings (screenshot) 
     [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"2","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]
  4. Add any fields you want to be present in the feed. (see below)
  5. Set up a path to show it as an xml document (see below)
     [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"3","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]
  6. Some alteration may be needed depending on whether the output for any given field need html or not.  Those alterations are made on a field by field basis within the view.

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