As far as I found out, drupal 5 does not provide an easy way to offer customized rss feeds. The Views RSS modules features a page view as rss feed, but the feed it generates does not include the fields of a view. The feed rather contains the title and a link to the corresponding note for every item. A first attempt to improve the rss page view is made here, but until now no module has been written to implement a new view style plugin. So I took the the code snippet and included it in a drupal 5 module with some improvements.

The new module View List RSS offers the following features:

• A new and customizable rss page view for the Views module. The rss feed includes all fields defined in the view. The rss item tags are labeled like the label of the corresponding feed. The description-tag of an item can be merged by two or mode fields.

• Change the default rss feed of the website to a customized feed provided by a rss page view.

Vor zwei Jahren habe ich einen Blogbeitrag über die Content-Management-Systeme Drupal und Typo3 auf der Webseiten der Mediendidaktik der Uni-Duisburg-Essen geschrieben. Jetzt, zwei Jahre nach dem Veröffentlichen dieses Beitrages, wird dieser Beitrag in der Community diskutiert. Schade nur, dass dieses Feedback nicht vor zwei Jahren kam: vielleicht wäre meine Einreichung zu dem Thema bei der GMW-Tagung dann anders ausgefallen...

Inhalt:
1. Aspekte der Planung einer Drupal-Webseite
2. Erste Schritte: anmelden, einrichten, Inhalte einstellen
3. Die wichtigsten Module: Content-Construction-Kit, Views etc.
4. Szenarien: Der Einsatz von Drupal an der Hochschule
5. Ausblick und Fragen

The conference module allows you to organise conferences with drupal 4.7. It implements a mechanism to post papers, to manage reviewers and to assign reviews to papers. A paper is an aritrary node whith an attached file and a review is an arbitrary node assigned to a paper. It also takes care for the access permissions to papers and reviews:

1. every author can only see his own paper
   
2. every reviewer can only see his own reviews but download the pdf-files attached to the papers assigned to him
   
3. a manager can see both and create assignments

Just a little detail: do you like the way how the trackback-module displays the trackback-url on your drupal-site? There's a simple way to change this behavior. It requires some little changes in the module-source, but perhaps that will give you an understanding of the programming of drupal-modules...

At first have a look at the trackback.module file, especially on line 261:

$node->body .= theme('box', t('Trackback URL for this post:'), url('trackback/'. $node->nid, NULL, NULL, TRUE));