[opencms-dev] Using the news module with version 5.0

[Rod Thorburn]

Carlos,
I use a jsp template to access page Properties, and where reqired I have
created new page Properties to hold the data that I want in the news
channel. The jsp template code is below, though this functionality would be
better served by a jstl custom tag (which is on my list of to-dos).
Note:
1. I use the page Property "keywords" to identify the news channel/s that an
article will appear in.
2. All current news articles are in the folder news/articles/ . This way I
can either select all or some articles to display. I move old articles to
another folder to archive.
3. I use the nav pos Property to determine position in navigation.

This is not a good utilisation of jsp's - too much code. All of this should
wrapped in a class (bean or jstl) that the jsp calls. I have'nt tested on
performance issues. 

To make this really work (from a users perspective) the page creation
properties function needs to be upgraded to include the new properties that
I need - then the user will be able to create a new page (the news release)
and headlines (news channel data) in one easy step. Any ideas on how to do
this?

Rod.

<%@ page
import="com.opencms.core.I_CmsConstants,com.opencms.flex.jsp.CmsJspNavElemen
t" %>
<table cellpadding="0" celspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
	<tr><td> </td></tr>
	<tr><td>


	<%
    // Link substitutor to make sure static export works 
    com.opencms.util.LinkSubstitution subst = new
com.opencms.util.LinkSubstitution();

	// Collect the objects required to access the OpenCms VFS from the
request
	com.opencms.flex.cache.CmsFlexRequest req =
(com.opencms.flex.cache.CmsFlexRequest)request;
	com.opencms.file.CmsObject cms = req.getCmsObject();

	// Get the current folder name
	String foldername = "/news/articles/";
	

	// Get a list of all pages / subfolders in the folder (sorted by
NavPos property)
	java.util.ArrayList list =
CmsJspNavElement.getNavigationForFolder(cms, foldername);	
    java.util.Iterator i = list.iterator();
    
    String keyWords;
	
    while (i.hasNext()) 
    {
    	CmsJspNavElement ne = (CmsJspNavElement)i.next();
    	keyWords = cms.readProperty(ne.getResourceName(), "KeyWords") ;
    	
    	if( keyWords != null )
    	{
    		if( keyWords.indexOf("m") > -1 )
    		{
    			%>
    			<p>
    				<div class="newsHeading"><%=ne.getTitle() !=
null ? ne.getTitle() : "" %></div>
    				<i><%=cms.readProperty(ne.getResourceName(),
"Date")%></i><br>
    				<%=ne.getDescription() != null ?
ne.getDescription() : "" %><br>
					<a
href="<%=subst.getLinkSubstitution(cms,
ne.getResourceName())%>"><%=ne.getNavText()%></a>
					<hr color="#EFD80D" size="4">
    	  		</p><%
    		}
    	}
    }
	%>
	
	</td></tr>
</table>

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Lopez Molina [mailto:clopez at epsa.junta-andalucia.es]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:58 PM
To: 'opencms-dev at www.opencms.org'
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Using the news module with version 5.0


Rod:

I am also using the news funcionality, and find it usefull, but I also 
found those caveats. Please, send me details about your jsp templates for 
news.

Best regards.
Carlos Lopez

-----Mensaje original-----
De:	Rod Thorburn [SMTP:rod.thorburn at pavtech.co.nz]
Enviado el:	miercoles, 30 de octubre de 2002 19:50
Para:	'opencms-dev at www.opencms.org'
Asunto:	RE: [opencms-dev] Using the news module with version 5.0

Hi Joe,
If you plan to us JSP's then in my opinion you should use v.5.0 . The news
module does work with v.5.0, but when I set this up I executed the SQL
statements to update the database / create tables "manually" (i.e. don't
rely on the automated setup routine) - the scripts are in the news module
zip file - and then afterwards import the news module from the
Administration View of opencms.

I would add though (and again in my experience and for my purposes) that I
have since disposed of the news module. Whilst the concept is good it is
functionally inadequate from the perspective of the user e.g. a news item
can only appear in 1 channel / most of the time users had to create a 
"page"
and news item (two separate functions). As an alternative I use JSP 
template
of which I can provide details if you wish.

Rod

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Burkhart [mailto:jburkhar at tdhca.state.tx.us]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:15 AM
To: 'opencms-dev at www.opencms.org'
Subject: [opencms-dev] Using the news module with version 5.0


Can someone help me understand the best version to use?  I'll need the
functionality of the news module and possibly JSPs.

I succesfully installed the latest version 5.0 beta, but couldn't get the
news module nor the opencms website demo functioning.  I downgraded to
version 4.6 and both items are installed and working now.  Should the news
module work automatically with the 5.0 release?  If not, is there a way to
make it work?

Thanks for any direction you can give.

Joe

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