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  Posted: Oct 26, 2008 - 12:32 PM

  Now that I've migrated from PostNuke .762 to Zikula 1.0.2 I'm really liking most of what I'm seeing. The biggest dislike comes from what I'm not seeing: the date/time of publication for news articles submitted in advance.
  
  As I prepare most of my stories a day or two in advance of publication to ensure a bountiful supply of new news items daily, the ability to see when something is scheduled to publish from the "News Publisher/View News Articles list" is essential to verifying a proper number of articles set to publish on each day. The only way I can do that now is by viewing each article individually or maintaining a separate tally sheet.
  
  Just thought I'd pass this along.

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  Posted: Oct 26, 2008 - 01:19 PM

  Oh, and while I'm at it the disappearance of a small input form to go directly to edit an old article simply by entering the sid number is also sorely missed.
  
  Thanks for listening!

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 26, 2008 - 05:11 PM

  Hi, there is already in ticket on this issue, check it here. Can (and will probably) be solved later on. You can already apply the hints I put in the ticket to get this functionality. But of course then you have to update module files.
  
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  Posted: Oct 26, 2008 - 11:32 PM

  espaan

  Hi, there is already in ticket on this issue, check it here. Can (and will probably) be solved later on. You can already apply the hints I put in the ticket to get this functionality. But of course then you have to update module files.

  
  
  Thanks, espaan! I certainly don't mind editing PHP files, but as a noob I need to follow precise instructions provided by someone such as you who actually knows what they're doing. Looking at your instructions, I have but a couple of questions.
  
  
  1. Precisely where in pnadmin.php does the following code get added?
  

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  if (DateUtil::getDatetimeDiff_AsField($item['time'], DateUtil::getDatetime(), 6) < 0) {
              $item['infuture'] = _YES . " (" . DateUtil::formatDatetime($item['time'],"%x") . ")";
          } else {
              $item['infuture'] = _NO;
          }

  
  
  2. How, precisely, does one go about completing your final instruction?
  

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  The language define _NEWS_INFUTURE should also be defined.

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 26, 2008 - 11:43 PM

  Hi,
  1. This code is added after the following code on line387 in pnadmin.php
  

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  if ($item['ihome'] == 0) {
              $item['ihome'] = _YES;
          } else {
              $item['ihome'] = _NO;
          }
          $newsitems[] = $item;

  
  becomes:
  

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  if ($item['ihome'] == 0) {
              $item['ihome'] = _YES;
          } else {
              $item['ihome'] = _NO;
          }
          if (DateUtil::getDatetimeDiff_AsField($item['time'], DateUtil::getDatetime(), 6) < 0) {
              $item['infuture'] = _YES . " (" . DateUtil::formatDatetime($item['time'],"%x") . ")";
          } else {
              $item['infuture'] = _NO;
          }
          $newsitems[] = $item;

  
  
  2. You have to edit the language files in News/pnlang/eng/admin.php and add that language define. Of course choose the language you are using if not english
  

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  define('_NEWS_REJECTED', 'Rejected');
  define('_NEWS_UNKNOWN', 'Unknown');

  
  becomes:
  

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  define('_NEWS_REJECTED', 'Rejected');
  define('_NEWS_UNKNOWN', 'Unknown');
  define('_NEWS_INFUTURE', 'Future Publication');

  
  Or whatever you would like in the header of the news overview.
  
  And it never hurts to make a backup of the original files
  (e.g. pnadmin.php -> pnadmin_original.php), then you can always go back to the original if something is messed up. Or add some comments above the changes you inserted like
  

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  // ADDED according to ticket 297, YOURNAME, 271008

  Good luck
  
  
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• FirstTracks
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 26, 2008 - 11:46 PM

  Thanks! That should be everything that I need -- and yeah, I've learned the whole rename-to-something-else-just-in-case the hard way years ago. I'll play with it tonight.

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  Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 08:07 AM

  Thank you, espaan, for writing instructions for the braindead like me -- it worked like a charm!

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