NewsArticles Module

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7/29/2010 5:35:40 AM
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Re: NewsArticles Module

Hi Jose,

As Jamie mentioned we are planning improvements to the blog to make it meet the needs of a "News Module".

For now, what most people do is use a Feed Manager on the home page for a news module and consume the feed from the blog which is on a different page. This allows you to show the most recent posts or excerpts of them on the home page.

Hope it helps,

Joe

8/27/2010 10:21:56 PM
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+1 vote for "News Module"

8/28/2010 2:28:07 PM
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I'm supporting

9/3/2010 6:31:46 AM
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I'm implement the blog approach, but you have my vote for a news module

3/7/2011 12:34:40 AM
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+1 vote for "News Module"

3/7/2011 1:46:14 AM
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Do not need to use the blog, is necessary to classify news or articles, to create, edit, publish, and notify the announcements, background maintenance Ye Hao point.

3/7/2011 2:55:49 AM
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I carefully looked at the code structure is the blog of articles inside a separate independent modules can be single
Single use, set the number of pages, the latest marker or something. Can browse the articles, whether to allow the return.

 

Thanks.

6/28/2011 2:59:37 AM
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We need the news module to support headline image, to be as a thumbnail image for the feed, and a large image in the article details!

Actually the news thing might cause me to not use MojoPortal,, PLeaseeee dooo it..

 

6/28/2011 6:12:52 AM
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You could use the Blog and put the small image in the Excerpt and the big image in the main part of the post, then enable use of the Excerpt in the feed from the settings.

Also you could consume the feed in Feed Manager to show a small list of recent news.

6/28/2011 6:31:35 AM
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>You could use the Blog and...

Well, first of all I have to say that I am your great fan for a long time. But. With News Module I really don't understand your position.

You tell "use blog", but blog control is, well, the BLOG control after all. Here is my experience: my non-IT friend have asked me to develop site for his dance club. Sure enough, I choose MojoPortal. Then he asked: "what about News Module? I'd like to have simple way just to post some piece of fresh info".

And I had to tell him: "There is NO News Module in this GREAT cms". Should I teach him to use Blog module instead??? He presses buttons on KB with just one finger after all!

You did so much very cool controls! Why don't you implement NM as we all wish?

By the way, somewhere in net I had found YOUR implementation of News Module for MP. Do you remember it? It was fully functional module, except it was binded with MsSQL server. Does it take A LOT of time to bake DAL for other DBs? After all -- ask guys here -- I'm sure the community will help you for free. It's not a rocket science to port existing DAL to other DB. But we NEED some existing DAL to start with.

I really wish you to be No 1 CRM in the world! wink

6/28/2011 6:38:26 AM
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Re: NewsArticles Module

It is on the Road Map to add improvements to the blog to make it more suitable for the News Article use case. My response is just telling what you can do today to achieve the result of showing recent news, I hoped it would be helpful.

Best,

Joe

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