Announcements or news module...
heuristik - January 25, 2008 - 16:11
Hi,
Admittedly, I'm new to Drupal, but one thing that isn't obvious to me is how to us the front page for Announcements.
I'd like people to be able to post these (for approval) or not for approval if by the administrator. It all seems very normal,
but I don't see any module for it, with announcements timing out, etc. Do people just use the blog module? What's the best route for this? It's tricky to search the archives for this because the word "announce" and "announcment" is just all over the place. Any pointers sincerely welcome. And thanks.
Matt Temple
Look at this
There are probably specific modules in you search the site but if you fancy building your own module check out this tutorial ...
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource6/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource14/
It is for 4.7 but isn't hard to port to 5
Good luck
There is a competent module
There is a competent module for just creating frontpage.
You can apply blocks to it and create a good frontpage.
As you get experience you can really learn to embellish it.
I suggest you forget about all the automatic stuff for awhile.
Later....
WHen you become familiar with Drupal you can use the CCK, and Views.
The CCK lets you create additional various fields in your content and Views provides the ability to filter, sort and otherwise control what users see.
Use CCK
Hello Matt,
Creating the new content type with the approval setting you are looking for is easy. If you have the fields that you need in mind, using CCK module you can get it done in less than an hour.
Displaying the news and announcement on the home page in the way you want is a totally different ball game. Based on which theme you are using, how customized the look of your site is it can take just few minutes (using view and default look and feel) to days/weeks.
Hope this helps, just few rumblings from another newbie.
Regards.
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Clearly, there are lots of
Clearly, there are lots of ways to do this; the views module is one. I have success using the last_node module to display the last 10 nodes of the type "story" in a block on my front page. The scheduler module works well for me to automate the publishing and unpublishing of items. I haven't yet implemented an approval process. And I'm still looking for a way to change the sort order of the items; I can't seem to get the weight module working for this purpose.