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• eolthedarkelf
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 23, 2010 - 02:05 AM

  Hello Everybody,
  
  I am searching for a block that is able to display "the newest X content items" for more than one type of content. I think its best explained by example: On my Site, I post News with the News Module, longer Articles using Pages and image gallerys with Mediashare. What I am looking for is a block that shows the most recent five of these "content items", whatever the type. e.g. it could display the News message posted today, the two new Pages-Articles from yesterday, the new image gallery created one week ago and then the last news from two weeks before.
  
  I hope you get my meaning. Is there such a thing in Zikula?
  
  
  
  Edited by eolthedarkelf on Jun 23, 2010 - 02:06 AM.

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• nestormateo
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 23, 2010 - 02:36 AM

  Hi!
  First of all, each module provides some blocks to accomplish these things. In fact, I guess that only News provides such robust block. Check the storiesext and the available ones in the other mods.
  
  We can see how to extend them if they lacks of the functionality
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• eolthedarkelf
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 23, 2010 - 03:20 AM

  hello nestormateo,
  
  thanks for your answer. But... Thats what I do not want: A dozen blocks displaying the 5 most recent news, the five most recent pages, the five most recent galleries, the five most recent events, the five most recent faq entries, the five most recent downloads, the five most recent forum threads... cluttering all of the left side of my homepage.
  
  What I am looking for is a way to consolidate all these things into one neat little block. Ideally in the block configuration I'd have a nice list of all the installed modules, and I just have to tick checkboxes for those content items that I want in my block. But I'd also get my fingers dirty by modifying some templates or something if that is what it takes to get there.
  
  
  
  Edited by eolthedarkelf on Jun 23, 2010 - 03:21 AM.

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• goexplore
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 23, 2010 - 06:32 AM

  I have been thinking about doing something like that with the Search module.
  
  It hooks into everything else and can already search and returns results in newest-to-oldest order.
  
  Run it through some kind of RSS theme and you could have a news feed for the whole site. I wanted to play around with using it for a Facebook what's-new-with-site-xxxx app.

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 23, 2010 - 09:07 AM

  Nice idea. Where should such a general block land? It is not that hard to gather the info from the modules actually and there are blocks already doing just that (like storiesext mateo mentioned above ).
  
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• eolthedarkelf
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 23, 2010 - 10:41 AM

  To integrate it with the search module seems a good idea to me, too. Why not just adding a "search/custom search" or "search/preconfigured search" block to the already existing module? From what I read in the developer docs, making a block for a already existing module seems not that complicated.

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