armand datema
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| 3/02/2010 11:05 PM |
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Hi scott
I would like to have a tag to show the category name in the news article latest. Now i have to to
[hascategory:category1]Category1[/hascategory]
this is a bit of overkill and the tempaltes get quite big because of all the hascategories
Could you add this in a coming version?
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Armand Datema
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Scott McCulloch
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| 3/03/2010 3:42 AM |
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An article has many categories, what one to show?
There is the [CATEGORIES] token though? |
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armand datema
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| 3/03/2010 3:54 AM |
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| I checked it out and yes [categories] works for me since articles can only be in one category. Didnt think of that i looked for [category] |
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Armand Datema
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DirtyDogHosting
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| 3/12/2010 12:13 PM |
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Hey Scott,
I didn't see that there was any way to add a form like the comments section for emailing the article to someone. if I missed it I am sorry for wasting your time. A token like you have in the property agent [EMAILFORM] or similar would kick butt! Using the mailto command just leaves you with minimal options for making the article link presentable to potential readers.
So rather then "I though you might be interested in: Long ass [ARTICLELINK] link here" It would be "I thought you might be interested in [ARTICLETITLE]"
What'cha think?
Kind Regards,
Aric |
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DirtyDogHosting
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| 3/12/2010 12:14 PM |
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[EDIT: REMOVED DOUBLE POST] Sorry!! |
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Ray Dixon
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| 3/12/2010 12:23 PM |
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Hi DirtyDogHosting,
A lot of people are adding ShareThis or AddThis to their View.Item template. I've added ShareThis and it works well. Both let users share your article via a variety of methods, including email but also Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
Search in the News Articles forum for ShareThis and/or AddThis and you should find some examples.
Good luck!
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Phil Speth
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| 3/12/2010 1:50 PM |
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Could you add an [RSSLINK] token to the news articles archive module.
This would be especially useful for Category View. |
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DirtyDogHosting
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| 3/12/2010 7:18 PM |
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Hi Ray,
Thank you kindly for the insight. I will check this out and see if it will do the trick.
Kind regards,
Aric |
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Laverne Douglas
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| 3/19/2010 10:43 AM |
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Does anyone know how to use:
[CREATEDATELESSTHEN:XXX] where XXX is number of days
[UPDATEDATELESSTHEN:XXX]
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Ray Dixon
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| 3/21/2010 3:04 PM |
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I think it works like most of the conditional tags in that you can display HTML between the start and end tags of the tokens if the condition is true. For instance, you could display an image for articles updated less than two days ago like this:
Scott, please correct me if I'm wrong here. |
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Laverne Douglas
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| 3/21/2010 10:27 PM |
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| Okay, I understand |
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Scott McCulloch
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| 3/22/2010 4:35 AM |
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| Sorry guys, I mis-spelt the token, it is CREATEDATELESSTHAN and UPDATEDATELESSTHAN |
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Victor Aviles
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| 3/24/2010 6:32 PM |
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| Will there ever be any token that will allow summary and/or article text without any html formating. Simply text, no HTMl tags what so ever? |
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ROBAX
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| 3/24/2010 6:47 PM |
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Posted By Victor Aviles on 3/24/2010 6:32 PM
Will there ever be any token that will allow summary and/or article text without any html formating. Simply text, no HTMl tags what so ever?
[SUMMARY:XXX] where XXX is a number of chars.
From what I recall, that strips the HTML formatting, including paragraph tags, which means it is not normally suitable for large blocks of content.
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Scott McCulloch
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| 3/25/2010 3:57 AM |
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| Thanks Rob |
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Victor Aviles
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| 3/28/2010 1:36 PM |
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| That did it! Thanks guys. |
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cirrious
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| 5/11/2010 4:28 AM |
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Thanks for the module :)
I'm looking to add an icon to each of my categories.
Is there any token I can use - I'm thinking of something like [CATEGORIESNOLINK] but with - or _ encoding - then I could use it inside CSS class names or inside an img src file name.
Or I guess I could use [HASCATEGORY:XXX] in a big switch statement... that's the way I'll go if there's no other suggestion. |
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cirrious
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| 5/11/2010 6:36 AM |
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Oops - think I may have spoken too soon there - is there actually a [HASCATEGORY] tag?
I guess if I can't find any other way then I'll use a custom field. |
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Scott McCulloch
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| 5/11/2010 7:10 AM |
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There is a [HASCATEGORY:XXX][/HASCATEGORY:XXX] token, but it's used for checking categories on a single article - you could use that.
I'm also going to lock this thread because it is quite long - so feel free to post in a new thread if you have any further questions. |
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