Looking for quick RedDot CMS help

[Paul]

Have a client (An agency) looking for some help with one of their other clients who is running RedDot CMS. Below is the description of the issue. I don't want anything for the referal. Just want to make sure whoever takes this does help the agency out and not make things worse. Contact me off list with your information and I'll pass it on to the agency contact. Who knows this might be a nice little on going RedDot gig. 

Basically all we want to do is to be able to pull in and display the following on the Red Dot site. Because the disparate pieces below are on different platforms from the Red Dot site, I would assume we would have to use RSS feeds to pull in the content.

a)      related blog posts filtered by categories/tags - it seems we can just filter this on the BLOG side of things by pulling in an RSS feed specific to the category/tag that content is tagged with on the Red Dot side.

b)      events filtered by location - I assume here too we would pull in RSS feeds but because each location may have a different RSS source, we'd have to create some code on the Red Dot side to determine which feed to pull based on the location a user selects.

Any insights appreciated - even a "of course you can do that once you find a developer" would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

[markus giesen]

Hi Paul,

Of course you can do that, and depending on, what you are going to do
with the aggregated content you need someone with a bit more RQL
experience.
Are you just showing the content within RedDot or do you want to
publish it from this point?

When pulishing is part of the process and there is no need for a
workflow, it would make sense to fetch the content directly from the
live site using a .net or whatever script language might be used.
Within RedDot you can do a lot of stuff to get things running :)
Good luck, maybe try the reddot cms google group.
http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users

Markus
http://www.reddotcmsblog.com

[Paul]

Markus,

Thanks for the um quick reply. The client was looking for some answers
last week.

As for me I will not ever touch RedDot in my lifetime again. Would
seriously go back to RPG or COBOL.

P-