I’ve got the News Product runtime open and am working on it today, probably tomorrow too.
Added a feature that lets you write a very simple one-like JavaScript expression to decide if an element is displayed in a news product timeline. You can see it in the JSON spec for the site. Here’s the expression:
feedItem.enclosure !== undefined
The filter has a feedItem object available to it, containing all the info about the item that’s being considered. You can see what’s available in by clicking on the icon under the item in the river. It’s the same object in both places.
In that filter, I’m checking if the item has an enclosure. You could also test if a string appears in the title:
feedItem.title.includes ('Peeksill') || feedItem.title.includes ('Kingston')
I’m not sure how useful this will be, but it was very easy to add, and we already had a standardized set of values associated with every item, so why not give it a try?
One tab, why display?
If a news product has only one tab, we only show the content. This was illustrated in the test version of podcatch.com.