By neo_silkroad on

Hi!

Kindly refer to this page:

http://www.silkroad.com/d/node/8

In this page, we enter events in two fields, without comments shown, one field is the date of the event or news, the other is the text.

Can somone build an simply module that lets me enter these events and create similar page, without all the hand written HTML and formatting?

Thanks!

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vm’s picture

vm commented

take a look at the CCK module this will allow you to create a new content type. Flexinode may be able to be used in this situation also.

with CCK you will need the addon Date. which adds a date field. then you could use contemplate to theme the new content type.

Sorry didnt realize this was in paid drupal services.

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liquidcms commented

Not quite sure what you are looking for; but if you are simply looking for a handy "our latest news" module, then you can download the one that my company designed, at:

http://www.liquidcms.ca/lcms_news.zip

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Management Solution Experts

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts

neo_silkroad’s picture

neo_silkroad commented

It was not clear to me how to install the icms_news moduie. Do you have a short REAME file?

I was thinking about modifying the biblio module, but that seems like overkill !!

Thanks!

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liquidcms commented

same as any module

- add to modules folder
- go to admin/modules and enable it

- you now get a new content type called news
- and a block called "Recently updated news items" - with a link to "view all news" that shows a pge view of snippets of all the news articles.

you can check out how it looks at my site.

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Management Solution Experts

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts

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neo_silkroad commented

Hi Peter!

Thanks. Yes, your news module is pretty close to what I was thinking!

For some reason, when I try it, the format of the footer changes, oddly enough.

Here is the link to the test page:

http://silkroad.com/d/lcms_news

In all other content pages, the footer is centered.

Any ideas?

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liquidcms commented

not sure why the footer is different on that page.. odds are something in your css files.

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Management Solution Experts

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts

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neo_silkroad commented

The error must be in the lcms_module, because the footer is correct in every page but the lcms_news page.

The CSS file is your default, unchanged.

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neo_silkroad commented

Solution:

FYI: I found it too confusing to use CCK, contemplate or views modules for this task (learning curve too high). Also, icms_news module did not behave as expected.

So, I used the .CSS file from the Biblio module, and did a little HTML formatting, since the content was already on the page. I'll stick with this simple solution for now.

OBTW: the Biblio module rocks!

http://www.silkroad.com/d/biblio

Thanks for this great module!!!

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chelahmy commented

What you need is actually Views + CCK modules and some theming. No need other module. I wonder what happen when your list grow big. Views can also solve that problem.

neo_silkroad’s picture

neo_silkroad commented

Thanks, I'll give views a look.

The biblio module seems very cool to customize, btw.. perhaps too complex for my requirements?