NewsArticles Module

2/27/2008 11:47:52 AM

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Hello!

Is it possible to find any News (creating,publishing,editing) module for MojoPortal? Your portal is one of the best, but News module... Have you plans to impleent it?

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Antonio.

4/26/2008 2:24:55 PM

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Re: NewsArticles Module

Hi Antonio

I anounce you to see an initial news articles module in Community Downloads.Please tell me you ideas to improvment that.

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Asad Samarian

5/9/2008 9:31:16 AM

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Hi Asad,

just found your posting and download your script. It looks nice, almost what i was looking for !!

Most of the functions I need are available I think. I just have a problem when I edit a news item the end date is not correct (back current date) Also the "excerpt" field is not showing up in the site.

Maybe some suggestions for if you plan to further develop the module

- Overview last 5 or 10 news articles from the current category below the current article
(see http://www.tacrally.be/v4/Nieuws/ToonNieuws.asp?id=102)
- Send to friend function
- Option to display Publishing date
- Option to display publicher

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Wouter

5/9/2008 1:51:06 PM

Asad Samarian

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Hi Wouter

Thanks for test my work.Nowadays I'm very busy but I plan to develop it. Sometime I think News Module is just a Blog Module and sometime I think not just Blog Module.So I confused.If you have a diffrent between News Module and Blog Module please let me know.

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5/14/2008 8:37:25 AM

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Re: NewsArticles Module VS Blog

Hi,

I know, sometimes I have the same problem.

If I look to the mojoportal blog module I am missing the functionality to give an enddate and the function to give an small intro text to the message. With those functions I think I can make the blog module work as news module. In the mean time I am gone use your module to learn C# and the mojo concept and try to add some functions.

For me a blog is more interactive. In a newsmodule I publish news without the posiblity to give comments, but if possible with rss and send to friend functions

... but if you ask it to 10 people they all give a different answer i think !

Greetz
Wouter

5/14/2008 8:56:12 AM

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Re: NewsArticles Module

One idea I've been thinking of lately might also be a way of having a news module. The idea is really more of an advanced RSS module. On the admin side you would subscribe to as many rss feeds as you want, but then you would approve on a post by post basis from all the feeds, which posts go into the output rss and then this output rss would be the news feed. So you could post many items in the blog, but maybe only a few of those become news items by approving them. This would also allow pulling in news items from external feeds or other features in mojoPortal. For example I plan to add RSS for the Events feature so events can be subscribed to using an RSS reader like google Reader. But you could also announce events in the news module by the same apparoval process. So the admin page for this advanced RSS feature would have 2 panes, on the left you would see all the posts coming in from all the subscribed feeds and on the right pane the posts approved for the output feed. You would select a post on the left and either click a button or perhaps drag and drop to add it to the approved list. A good name for a feature like this might be RSS Publisher because you would selectivly publish posts into an outbound feed from all the inbound feeds.

Anyway its an idea I've been thinking of but not sure if/when I will get to it so if anyone else wants to build it that would be great.

Cheers,

Joe

8/4/2008 11:36:58 PM

tzan1999

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Re: NewsArticles Module

Is this not available for download anymore??

Thanks

1/12/2009 4:59:31 PM

carga

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Re: NewsArticles Module

Please, implement SQLite DAL.

This will greately help.

Thank you very much,

Anton.

7/28/2010 2:54:47 PM

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Re: NewsArticles Module

Hello,

I also need a news module for a project. I know that the blog module can be used as some kind of news module, but its not the same. There are some features in other projects, that i don't like as i do for the mojoportal, that are real need in a news module. Mojo is really a great project and i like the architecture and i don't understand why doesn't have a news module, that is one of the most used functionality in portals. So many great things and lakes for a news module?

And i searched in the community downloads and i only saw one module. Is that correct or i missed something?

Asad Samarian said that he had made a news module and post to the downloads, but i cant find it. It was taken from the downloads? Just to know if i was in the right place and if it was taken theres any other place i can get it?

thanks in advance

José Domingos

7/28/2010 5:06:19 PM

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Re: NewsArticles Module

Hi José, I believe this is already on Joe's list. If you check the roadmap page, you'll see under the blog roadmap section that he wants to expand the blog module to better support use as a news feature. I know there are a lot of us who are looking forward to those changes. smiley

Jamie

7/29/2010 5:35:40 AM

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Hi Jose,

As Jamie mentioned we are planning improvements to the blog to make it meet the needs of a "News Module".

For now, what most people do is use a Feed Manager on the home page for a news module and consume the feed from the blog which is on a different page. This allows you to show the most recent posts or excerpts of them on the home page.

Hope it helps,

Joe

8/27/2010 10:21:56 PM

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+1 vote for "News Module"

8/28/2010 2:28:07 PM

atisoft

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I'm supporting

9/3/2010 6:31:46 AM

germandb

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I'm implement the blog approach, but you have my vote for a news module

3/7/2011 12:34:40 AM

李强

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+1 vote for "News Module"

3/7/2011 1:46:14 AM

李强

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Do not need to use the blog, is necessary to classify news or articles, to create, edit, publish, and notify the announcements, background maintenance Ye Hao point.

3/7/2011 2:55:49 AM

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I carefully looked at the code structure is the blog of articles inside a separate independent modules can be single
Single use, set the number of pages, the latest marker or something. Can browse the articles, whether to allow the return.

Thanks.

6/28/2011 2:59:37 AM

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We need the news module to support headline image, to be as a thumbnail image for the feed, and a large image in the article details!

Actually the news thing might cause me to not use MojoPortal,, PLeaseeee dooo it..

6/28/2011 6:12:52 AM

Joe Audette

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You could use the Blog and put the small image in the Excerpt and the big image in the main part of the post, then enable use of the Excerpt in the feed from the settings.

Also you could consume the feed in Feed Manager to show a small list of recent news.

6/28/2011 6:31:35 AM

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>You could use the Blog and...

Well, first of all I have to say that I am your great fan for a long time. But. With News Module I really don't understand your position.

You tell "use blog", but blog control is, well, the BLOG control after all. Here is my experience: my non-IT friend have asked me to develop site for his dance club. Sure enough, I choose MojoPortal. Then he asked: "what about News Module? I'd like to have simple way just to post some piece of fresh info".

And I had to tell him: "There is NO News Module in this GREAT cms". Should I teach him to use Blog module instead??? He presses buttons on KB with just one finger after all!

You did so much very cool controls! Why don't you implement NM as we all wish?

By the way, somewhere in net I had found YOUR implementation of News Module for MP. Do you remember it? It was fully functional module, except it was binded with MsSQL server. Does it take A LOT of time to bake DAL for other DBs? After all -- ask guys here -- I'm sure the community will help you for free. It's not a rocket science to port existing DAL to other DB. But we NEED some existing DAL to start with.

I really wish you to be No 1 CRM in the world!

6/28/2011 6:38:26 AM

Joe Audette

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It is on the Road Map to add improvements to the blog to make it more suitable for the News Article use case. My response is just telling what you can do today to achieve the result of showing recent news, I hoped it would be helpful.

Best,

Joe

6/28/2011 10:26:54 AM

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I was hesitant at first to use the Blog feature for news releases, but as the Bard said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." You can see an example of how the blog looks when used as a news feed here (we don't have images, but you can imagine them in there. The Blog module exposes an RSS feed, which you can consume on other pages or with the Feed Manager feature.

As Joe said, there are still some improvements that would make the blog better when showing news, but it's definitely a workable solution now, and the compromises are fairly minor to me. Joe, when you are able to put those changes in, maybe the module name should be changed to "Blog & News" too.

Jamie

1/29/2012 8:31:21 AM

李强

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Is it possible to find any News or Articles (creating,publishing,editing) module for MojoPortal? Your portal is one of the best, but News module... Have you plans to impleent it? Best regards,