Liberal Democrats: Flock Together

I’ve just updated Flock Together to reflect the party’s latest local party structure.

This has also enabled me to create feeds using the party’s official numbers for local parties.

If you would like to get an RSS feed for your local party using your local party’s ‘official’ number, it’s at:

http://www.flocktogether.org.uk/rss.php?partyID=yourpartysofficialnumber

For example, Winchester is at:

http://www.flocktogether.org.uk/rss.php?partyID=632

All the other flags for the RSS feed still work as previously posted.

Flock Together events pages now have a link showing you how to get to events anywhere in the country by public transport from your home postcode via the Transport Direct website.

Just look for the section called ‘Travel Details’.

You can have a go at working out your route to Harrogate via http://www.flocktogether.org.uk/showMeetingPage.php?Meeting=1108 or, indeed, almost any other meeting on the site.

I’ve added some more variables for Flock Together feeds…

The basic feed remains, as before:

http://www.flocktogether.org.uk/userrss.php?id=yourusername

Instead of your user name, it’s now possible to reference by membership number or postcode. For example:

?pc=RG14+1PJ&range=50

does the postcode and range (if you leave out range, it uses 50 miles). And:

&mn=1234567

does the Liberal Democrat membership number (although this only works for registered users of Flock Together who’ve entered their membership number when they registered).

For registered users who want to publish their feed, it may make sense only to show only meetings that they’ve ‘registered’ on Flock Together. To do this they can add the following onto their URL:

&registeredonly=yes

To sort the meetings in order of reverse appearance (i.e. the most ‘recent’ post will be the most immediate upcoming meeting), add:

&sortorder=meetingdate

If you want to show your feed on a Prater Raines site, then the best option is just to add the following to your URL:

&praterraines=yes

Finally, to set the publish date to the meeting date (which may break some feedreaders, since the publish date will be in the future), just add:

&scheduleddate=yes