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
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