Innovation News Installation Profile

Open Publishing... - August 10, 2008 - 00:59

The Innovation News installation profile provides all the tools and settings necessary to run a cross-media newspaper. Specifically, it allows the site's news to easily be exported as an RSS feed, as a Google Earth™ KML file, and as generic XML data.

Users who do not wish to make use of the cross-media features can use their Innovation News site as simply a news website.

Features:

Creation of 5 roles - administrator, writer, photographer, editor, and manager - to allow for team collaboration
Two new content types - Article and Reader Story
Integration with the Innovation News module to facilitate the development of news stories in a collaborative environment. The Innovation News module also allows news stories to be grouped into "editions" and displayed by edition, similar to the way news stories are compiled into daily editions of newspapers. In addition, XML can be generated from editions and imported into publishing software or used for any other of a variety of purposes.
Integration with the XML to KML module, allowing the site's RSS feed to be output as a KML file. This output KML file can be opened in Google Earth™ to display news according to location.
Integration with the Pathauto module to create URLs which are search engine friendly
Pre-set Views and Content Templates which display news in a professional-looking format

Required Modules:
CAPTCHA
Content Construction Kit (CCK)
Content Templates
Image
Innovation News
Pathauto
Token
Views
XML to KML