By H4_Harvey on

I am currently developing a site for an educational institution and am looking into implementing a News Module. Does anyone know if a module exists? Bascially I'm looking for blog sytle of module that doesn't allow people to comment against a story or displays who wrote it and automatically displays a short version of the article on a news home page. Ideally I wanted to try and pull the most recent story onto the home page of the site automatically.

It's been suggested to just use the blog module and tweak it, however I may well have blogs on the site as well and don't want to confuse the two?!

Can anyone help?

Many thanks - Harvey

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tobbe_s’s picture

tobbe_s commented

Use cck, which is a great module, and create a new node type for your news implementation. Or use the built in "page" node type for news and the "story" node type for other types of articles. Set commenting to "off" in the settings for your newly created node type, and look in the theme settings (I think) for a setting to show or hide authoring information for each node type.

tobbe_s’s picture

tobbe_s commented

Use cck, which is a great module, and create a new node type for your news implementation. Or use the built in "page" node type for news and the "story" node type for other types of articles. Set commenting to "off" in the settings for your newly created node type, and look in the theme settings (I think) for a setting to show or hide authoring information for each node type.

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bdornbush commented

On one of my sites, I had a need to create a news capability where I could define when the news item should start appearing and stop appearing, an optional date when the news item should appear on the calendar, and a separate abstract and body. I used CCK to create a new content type, News, and combined this with the Calendar View (http://drupal.org/node/133341) and two additional views that I built. One view is used on the front page to show the abstracts of the news items where today is between the start and stop dates. Another view is used to show all fields of the News content type so that they can be managed by a user with the News Editor role.

I show most of the detailed steps to do this at http://www.dornbush.net/node/5. The missing steps are for the calendar view as I did them after I created the blog entry.

Although this worked very well for me, it doesn't make it easy to share the results as a module. On the other hand, it does make it easy for someone else to do almost the same thing and modify it for their needs. I really like CCK and Views.