Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Not sure how I'm going to do this one since core doesn't have a flag for it. Suggestions welcome.
Michelle
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Comments
Comment #1
michelleWill revisit this in 2.x.
Michelle
Comment #2
Vyoma commentedJust curious on this one, but understand if you are busy with other things.
Would the announcement post/data be made visible on a designated forum (or container?), or there would be one (global?) announcement?
We could store it in system table perhaps (the announcement content).
But perhaps, and better solution would be a content type named 'Forum Announcement' that has a field to tie it to a particular forum/container. Then Advanced forum could add look for these 'published' nodes for a given forum/container.
"Forum Announcement" could perhaps be made into a dependent module.
Let me know your thoughts. I am moderately comforatble with creating modules.
Comment #3
michelleI really haven't given it any thought beyond seeing stand alone software has this. I won't be working on 2.x for probably a month or so.
Michelle
Comment #4
Vyoma commentedI understand Michelle.
Speaking of standalone software, I checked my vBulletin installation to see how they have implemented it. Took some screenshots and some notes so that we have it for later reference.
PS: Sorry for choosing ugly red-yellow theme for screenshot annotations. :P
Comment #5
michelleThanks for looking into this further. This will come in handy when I work on it. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm blowing you off... I just have my plate full right now and have to force myself to not get sucked into 2.x until 1.0 is out. :)
Michelle
Comment #6
Vyoma commentedNo problem at all Michelle! We all need to set our priorities to get things done.
And you can surely ignore any further updates I make here as an when I get time to chip in. You can visit it when you put this issue back on your plate. :)
Comment #7
weimeng commentedJust speaking off the cuff, one possibility might be to use the Flag module (if available) to create a custom "Announcement" flag for forum node types. You could then use normal forum node types for announcements, and this should be themable as well. The downside is dependency on yet another contrib module for functionality.
Comment #8
michelleNot a bad idea. It wouldn't be a true dependency as in you can't enable the module without it so I don't mind.
Thanks,
Michelle
Comment #9
michelleComment #10
iva2k commentedJust FYI, there is a module Announcements based off some open IBM code. That module is quite solid. It provides dates for the node to be visible, and some config options around blocks, front page etc.
Comment #11
michellePushing this off to 3.x
Michelle
Comment #12
michelleAll that's really needed for this is Flag and a view. Because it's somewhat site specific, I don't know that I'll ever include it in AF itself. Closing for now but I may change my mind in the future.
Michelle