Hi Scott,

These days i've read some forum entry here dealing with a Newsticker and I've spent some time experimenting with News Artices -> JQuery integration, as this would allow for easy creation of some cute UI-effects, like fading Newstickers.

Many JQuery-Plugins i've seen request the data be rendered as an unordered list. But this is not possible with NA, as NA currently forces a table based layout.

What we need consequently is an "expert" mode, that allows for a completely free layout of the module's data.

E.g. something like this (i've replaced HTML braces with [ ])

Header: 

[ul id="news" class="newsticker"]

Body:

[li] [a href=[LINK]>[TITLE][/a] by [AUTHORUSERNAME] [div class="normal"] [SUMMARY:100] [/div]
[/li]

Footer:

[/ul]

If this would be possible any integration with JQuery would be quite easy.

Another option which would be very useful when integrating any Javascript libraries would be an option to "RegisterOnce" any scripts. This would prevent multiple module instances on a page to reference the same library multiple times. Maybe this is already part of DNN4.5+ - i just don't know.

What do yout think?

Cheers,
Joe

Oh man,
how could i miss this. Surely layout mode works perfectly for free layouts. Very cool!

You can see a prototype of a NewsArticle Latest - JQuery - Newsticker integration here:

http://www.wolfsbau.de/Joe/JQueryNewsTicker.aspx

This fading newsticker changes its content every 4 seconds. Hovering the mouse pauses the animation. In this prototype I have put the script-tags in the module's Header-section.

A RegisterOnce Tag would definitely be helpful, as integration of Javascript libraries becomes more and more important.

Cheers,
Joe

it's great looking stuff. How did you do it ? "scrip tags in module's Header-section" ?

Could you please explain that to ignorant dnn lover ?

Thanks

Glad you like it. It's easy enough, as the jquery javascript guys already did the hardcore stuff.
But OK - for all DNN-Lovers, and especially for Scott's module-lovers i've prepared a little tutorial:

http://www.wolfsbau.de/Joe/JQueryNewsTicker.aspx

Hope this helps,

Joe

Thanks Joe !

I think that litle things like this (as you aforesaid: "cute UI-effects") would make Scott's modules absolutely perfect !

Thanks again for sharing this with us all.

John T.