Dizkus

Is there a way to let users choose what displays on the index page when they browse to the site/login? For instance, I would like my users to be able to choose to display articles from only certain news topics on their home page, or perhaps events they have added to their calendar.

mmmh. There is no read-made solution for that, but I think it could be achievable with not too much effort - but a bit coding skills.

I suggest you use .8RC3 as basis for your work. There you can define custom Drop-Downs within the user profile. Define one with all the options for the frontpage. Next thing you have to work on your home.htm - pnusergetvar fetches the value that is selected in the dropdown for the active user according to that setting you can call the news module: Instead of using you call the news module directly - I don't know the exact call but it could be something like

Do you get the idea? Do you think you can do some customizing in templates? Then start to work and ask when you have problems.

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