[opencms-dev] News woes continued.

[daniel Griffith]

Oh, sorry for the double post - hit refresh...:(

Olli  wrote:
>>>
Regarding the commercial support - Alkacon as core
developers are currently
very busy with the next release, but OpenCMS does have
an extensive global
support organisation (the full list can be found on
the site).
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Yup, a couple have contacted me since my last post,
which is great. One brought up that the next release
of opencms may have a new built in news system (to be
honest I can't understand why it doesn't currently),
so I am a little concerned at paying someone to
develop a new module, while at the same time Alkacon
were duplicating the effort... I guess only they know,
and they are ignoring me:)

>>>
Regarding the news module - the one in the sand box
will work with version
5.01. I have not used the module myself (tend to build
my own content types
instead), but know people using it.
<<<
I was put off from using it initially due to its
readme, but it seems to work on my 5.0.1 install. It
will do fine for one project, but I really need
something more sophisticated for another project.

>>>
>"Oh, another question.I need to be able to list news
>on a page with say 5
>items on 1 page, and a menu listing 1 2 3 4 etc to go
>through old items. Not too hard to do I guess, but I
>really feel I'll be re-inventing the wheel, does
>anyone have an example or a code snippet that does
>this?"

I my opinion the news module should allow you to do
this :)
<<<

Well I have the opinion that the newsmodule should do
that, but with no documentation, and only with the
patches to the demo site as examples, I have no idea
if it can, or how to get it to do that - bar coding it
myself.

daniel


	
	
		
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