By JonMB on

Is it possible to use two of the same module?

I am using the Announcements module, but I would like to have two versions of it on the same site. On the main page I want to use it to display News in the "content" section, but I'd also like to use it to display Announcements in the "right block" section. How can I do this?

Much thanks!

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silverwing’s picture

silverwing commented

You can use Views to have a full-node block that pulls the announcement from a node you created.

~silverwing - just an alternative...

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JonMB commented

I'm looking more into the Views module now. Apparently it's quite popular. :)

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silverwing commented

Views is one one reasons a lot of people haven't upgraded to Drupal 6 yet.

It's powerful, but confusing at first. Once you start to get the hang of it, it's amazing!

~silverwing

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

You can't use two. There will be name conflicts.

But one is enough to do all the things you want. Displaying announcements in the content does not forbid you to enable any blocks you want at the same time. (Except if I don't understand what you want to do.)

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JonMB commented

My idea was to use the Announcements module in two places on the same page: content and right-block. When I go to the Blocks section in Administrator, I can only choose one section (content or right-block).

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silverwing commented

Why not just create a block, add your content there, and edit that block when you have a new announcement?

~silverwing
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JonMB commented

If it were for me I would keep it simple and do that, but we're building the site for a client and we want it to be more dynamic with a simple interface for them to update from.

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cog.rusty commented

Ah, you mean the theme region called "content" in admin/build/block. I thought you meant in the proper content, like a node.

You may find this module useful:

http://drupal.org/project/blockclone

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JonMB commented

I'll check that out, although I don't want an exact clone because each block will have different and unique content.

We may be accomplishing our goal by using a combination of the Blog and Announcements modules. Thanks to everyone for your help.