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• dits
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 27, 2010 - 06:34 PM

  Is there a calendar module that can display a (category based) subsection of News? Alternatively: are there any 'calendar templates' available for news?

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• Guite
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 27, 2010 - 08:59 PM

  TimeIt AFAIK supports categories. I guess you can do it yourself with just a few lines in a template override. Something like:
  

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  <!--[if $categoryInTimeItIsSelected]-->
  <!--[pnmodavailable modname="News" assign="hasNewsMod"]-->
  <!--[if $hasNewsMod]-->
  <!--[pnmodapifunc modname="News" type="user" func="getall" property="Main" category=$categoryFromTimeIt numitems=5 assign="fittingArticles"]-->
  <!--[if $fittingArticles|@count]-->
      <h3>Fitting articles:</h3>
      <ul>
      <!--[foreach item="article" from=$fittingArticles]-->
          <li><!--[$article.sid]-->: <!--[$article.title]--></li>
      <!--[/foreach]-->
      </ul>
  <!--[/if]-->
  <!--[/if]-->
  <!--[/if]-->

  
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 27, 2010 - 09:17 PM

  Nice one Axel Zikula power !
  
  Craig was also developing something for Postcalendar. I have had some E-mail discussion about it. I
  don't know the status of that block.
  
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• dits
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 27, 2010 - 09:47 PM

  Thanks! Guess there is a news template for TimeIt now

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• Guite
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 27, 2010 - 11:08 PM

  For reusability a plugin would be a nice approach.
  Advantages:
  * It hides the complexity away from the template
  * Can be used in all modules by simply providing a category as well as some optional parameters like numitems
  * Can be shared in extdb (with dependency to the News module) [Edit: you can share the template set as well, did you know? ]
  
  Example:
  

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  <!--[getNewsPerCategory property="Main" category=$myCatID assign="fittingArticles"]-->

  
  
  In step 2 another plugin could then use this one, wrapping the display also:
  

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  <!--[displayNewsPerCategory property="Main" category=$myCatID display="unorderedList"]-->

  
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 12:14 AM

  Guite

  you can share the template set as well, did you know?
  

  
  
  Do you mean for the calendar display or the Formicula (other topic) templates?
  
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• craigh
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 12:15 AM

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  Craig was also developing something for Postcalendar. I have had some E-mail discussion about it. I
  don't know the status of that block.

  
  Working on it. version 6.1 will contain it

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• HalbrookTech
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 04:37 AM

  Display data from category would be a nice feature to add to the plugins in Content, so the content page's category could be used by default in the plugins display. :) (Ticket already submitted to Content for that).
  
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