I'm a new user of RSSOwl and have installed the latest 2.0.3 update for
Windows XP SP3. I use filters to copy news items from several feeds into a
single "Unread" bin. I want the status of these items to remain New after
the copy to the Unread bin. Finally, I want the status of the original items
in the feed folders changed to Read after the copy so that they can be
automatically removed after 30 days.
For each feed a Match all filter was created with the following subsequent
actions in order:
Label News
Copy News
Mark News as Read
The issue is the items in the Unread bin after the copy all have Read
status. If the last action is deleted, all items copied to the Unread bin have
the correct status but the status of the original items in the feed folders
must be manually changed to Read. This would indicate that Mark News as
Read[" action is being performed before the _Copy News in the original
sequence
Is there a way to specify that filter actions be taken in order or is there
another way to automatically perform the sequence. Any help would be
appreciated._
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Anonymous
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2010-01-24
What you try to achieve is currently not possible with how filters work in
RSSOwl. Actions performed on news will always be performed on all copies of
the news (not doing so would cause a lot of users post new bugs against
RSSOwl).
What about you rather move news to the bin and not copy it?
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After using RSSOwl further, this issue for me has become moot. I didn't
realize the status of new news items is automatically changed from New to Unread as newer items are received. This will achieve what I want to do as
long as unread items, that are in fact never read, will have the Clean Up
property settings applied to them. If this is not the case, please let me
know!
The reason I copy news items to a centralized bin instead of moving them is
simple and a personal choice. I like to read all my news items regardless of
source in chronological order by scrolling. Having all the feeds in a single
bin ordered by date allows me to do this. _(I'm coming from RSS Bandit which
has a predefined default Unread folder for doing just this. Unfortunately,
RSS Bandit has become somewhat decrepit of late, a resource hog with well know
bugs that never seem to get fixed and the only promised updates being cosmetic
UI changes.) _ Most of the time I delete all the read feeds in this bin after
going through them.
Occasionally I'll delete a item by mistake or need to re-access a deleted
item. Because I have all the original feed folder's Clean Up property set to
only delete items older than 30 days, they serve as a search-able 30-day
backup record of feed updates.
So far the more I learn the more I'm liking RSSOwl.
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Anonymous
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2010-01-28
Good to hear that! Yes cleanup should work on unread news even if you never
saw them. Let me know if it does not work otherwise.
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I'm a new user of RSSOwl and have installed the latest 2.0.3 update for
Windows XP SP3. I use filters to copy news items from several feeds into a
single "Unread" bin. I want the status of these items to remain New after
the copy to the Unread bin. Finally, I want the status of the original items
in the feed folders changed to Read after the copy so that they can be
automatically removed after 30 days.
For each feed a Match all filter was created with the following subsequent
actions in order:
Label News
Copy News
Mark News as Read
The issue is the items in the Unread bin after the copy all have Read
status. If the last action is deleted, all items copied to the Unread bin have
the correct status but the status of the original items in the feed folders
must be manually changed to Read. This would indicate that Mark News as
Read[" action is being performed before the _Copy News in the original
sequence
Is there a way to specify that filter actions be taken in order or is there
another way to automatically perform the sequence. Any help would be
appreciated._
What you try to achieve is currently not possible with how filters work in
RSSOwl. Actions performed on news will always be performed on all copies of
the news (not doing so would cause a lot of users post new bugs against
RSSOwl).
What about you rather move news to the bin and not copy it?
Thanks for the reply.
After using RSSOwl further, this issue for me has become moot. I didn't
realize the status of new news items is automatically changed from New to
Unread as newer items are received. This will achieve what I want to do as
long as unread items, that are in fact never read, will have the Clean Up
property settings applied to them. If this is not the case, please let me
know!
The reason I copy news items to a centralized bin instead of moving them is
simple and a personal choice. I like to read all my news items regardless of
source in chronological order by scrolling. Having all the feeds in a single
bin ordered by date allows me to do this. _(I'm coming from RSS Bandit which
has a predefined default Unread folder for doing just this. Unfortunately,
RSS Bandit has become somewhat decrepit of late, a resource hog with well know
bugs that never seem to get fixed and the only promised updates being cosmetic
UI changes.) _ Most of the time I delete all the read feeds in this bin after
going through them.
Occasionally I'll delete a item by mistake or need to re-access a deleted
item. Because I have all the original feed folder's Clean Up property set to
only delete items older than 30 days, they serve as a search-able 30-day
backup record of feed updates.
So far the more I learn the more I'm liking RSSOwl.
Good to hear that! Yes cleanup should work on unread news even if you never
saw them. Let me know if it does not work otherwise.