By john.kenney on

Hello:

Trying to work out a few things to get my site ready to launch. A bit new to this, so my terminology may be off.

1. Can a module/block be displayed in two different places? For instance, I am planning to have someone build a simple Google map function that highlights a fixed location/destination. The map would have simple instrumentation to set map center by geocoordinates, map zoom level, map size, etc. Module would use Google API. I want to display a mini-version of the map in a sidebar block throughout the site (on every page). Then I want on one single detailed page to show the same map, but larger and with more functionality (e.g., ability to zoom). The two 'versions' of the map would require essentially the same instrumentation (coordinates, map size, etc.), although the larger one would probably also support zoom and perhaps other features.

What is the easiest way to do this? Via a module that is replicated somehow? Via 2 modules with roughly the same feature set?

2. How do you get inbound RSS and module content to display inside the body of content on a page? I.e., I have an inbound feed now. As above, I want that feed to display throughout the site in a block in abbreviated format. But then I also want to have a detailed page with deeper presentation of the feed (i.e., headlines plus short summary). How do I replicate RSS as above? And how do I get the RSS content into the body of the page - i.e., so I can put heading and descriptive preamble and/or manipulate the feed more than is done by default?

Any suggestions would be welcome. I am also open to potential freelancers who might help me with these questions.

Regards,
John

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MiraKimura’s picture

MiraKimura commented

Have this solved? Because I have the same query (different module - the last node).

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john.kenney commented

Not sure which part of my question you are having trouble with, but the answer to both parts is basically yes. Unfortunately, I'm not really doing either of these now, but I did solve them and then dropped the approach - at least the RSS part and the blocks part.

Instead, I use certain custom code that was developed on 2 different nodes in the same site. I was able to simply copy the custom code into each place and it worked. I'm sure you can do the same thing in two different blocks, too.