By heuristik on

I was looking for an "announcements" module, much like the one suggested in the IBM Drupal tutorial. As far as I can tell, no one has
made that module available. So I was wondering how Drupal handles "News and Announcements" on its own web site. Does anyone know?

Thanks.

Matt Temple

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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sepeck commented

News and Announcements are just forum post with comments disabled.

In 5.0 you could just use a custom content type. Or for 4.7 you could follow the tutorial and use the code from the ibm articles to write your own module.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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ubunTux commented

Greetings to everyone!

I had seen the Drupal Tutorial Article from IBM developerWorks. And would also like to add the mentioned "announcement module" on the website I'm playing with using Drupal 5.1. The problem is, the module doesn't show up on the admin page (to enable it).

Anyone knows what seems to be the problem? I hope someone here could help us to make it work.

Thanks in advanced!

.ubunTux

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

You would need to update it per the instructions
http://drupal.org/update/modules

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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ubunTux commented

Thanks! Will read about it and try converting the sample (announcement) module discussed at the (Drupal) IBM developerWorks article.

.ubunTux

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ron barbas commented

I'm trying to find an outreach module that allows for sending information to a group (of emails) and maintaining the information sent, as well as sending announcements and reminders and accepting requests. Does anyone know if something like this is available with Drupal 5? And if so, which module is it?