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[#148] My thoughts for things that needs to be improved in the News module.

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Created By: Alexander Endresen (wiseq)
Date Submitted: 2005-12-06 20:52

Assigned To: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)
Resolution: Fixed
State: Closed
Summary:
My thoughts for things that needs to be improved in the News module.
Detailed Description:
There are 5 things that I would like to see in the news module. 

1) The ability to hide certain tabs for certain users. (Will be done using group
permissions).

2) Increase the size of the Title input field, I suggest that WYSIWYG is also
added for this field so that the users can for example color their headlines.

3) Make only the Title field mandatory as input for new newsstory. 

4) Move the summary input field to an "advanced" tab. 

5) Make it possible to change the page template being used to display the news
details. Should be done by adding another parameter to module input code used in
the template, and in addition it should be possible to override this by
specifying a template for the specific newsstory in the "Advanced" tab.

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Date: 2005-12-21 23:40
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

#1 is done, and committed to svn.
- Users with "Modify News" permission can add, edit, delete articles, and
and categories
    - Users with "Modify Templates" permission can fool with the templates
- Users with "Modify Site Preferences" permission can edit the items in the
options tab.
If a user doesn't have one of these permissions, then the tabs are not even
visible in the module interface.
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Date: 2005-12-21 23:48
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

#2)  I think that either the summary or the contents field should be mandatory,
and this should be explained in the form itself, however, the wysiwig in the
title and making it a bit larger is a good idea.  Remember that templates are
the ultimate flexibility, and if we had better flexibility with the templates it
could solve this problem.
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Date: 2005-12-21 23:52
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

I think that #5 should wait until a "templates module" is available, and then we
could associate a database template with a news article, this soulds like a
great idea.  However, how would the first part work? and how is it different
from the "summarytemplate" and "detailtemplate" parameters that are already
there?
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Date: 2007-11-01 18:16
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

2 - not done, and not a good idea IMHO, at current, designers can modify the
templates to use different styles for headers based on category if they want.
3 - not necessary, it can be customized in the template
4 - there is now an option to hide the summary input field
5 - done along time ago except for the template for a particular article option
    but I don't think this is really necessary, because with some smarty logic
    and lots more info available to smarty lots of stuff can be done.
Updates

Updated: 2015-12-20 12:00
resolution_id: => 7
state: Open => Closed