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ajmusic24
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Jan 5, 2004, 4:42 PM

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I would like to know if News Manager is able to list the titles/date of news items on the homepage of its website. I would like it to look like the web site below. If this is possible, how would I set it up?

http://futurevision.com.ua/index.htm

Thanks,
AJ

Donna
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Jan 5, 2004, 4:51 PM

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Hi AJ!

Thanks for your email. :)

In this case, we recommend using a Server Side Include (SSI) to include the index page of News Manager into your homepage.

To do this, first you'll want to format your template so that it fits the look & feel of your site and is designed to fit into whatever spot on your main page you want it to show up in.

Then, you'll want to change the name of your main index page to index.shtml -- most servers only recognize SSI's in pages that end in .shtml. (Make sure that any pages linking to this page are also changed.)

Then, add the following to your index.shtml where you want your headlines to appear:



Save your file, and take a look!

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. :)

Donna

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ajmusic24
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Jan 25, 2004, 11:49 AM

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Re: [Donna] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

I used the  but this includes the entire page. How do I just include the date, and the title of the news item?

Thanks Donna,
AJ

Donna
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Jan 25, 2004, 1:45 PM

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Re: [ajmusic24] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi AJ!

If you want to modify what the output of that page is, you can change the _index.html template file to have the look & feel that you want. Then, when you include the index file into your homepage, it will show up the way you want it to look. :)

Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. :)

Donna

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ajmusic24
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Jan 25, 2004, 2:01 PM

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Re: [ajmusic24] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Donna,

I custumized my _index.html template to look like the rest of my site. Now I just need to display the date and title of the news items on the side of my homepage like the example I gave you before. Is this possible?

Thanks,
AJ

Donna
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Jan 25, 2004, 3:44 PM

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Re: [ajmusic24] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi AJ!

Actually, rather than customizing the _index.html template to look like the rest of your site, you'll want to set it up so that it only has the date & title of the news item. Since this is the file you'll be including on your main page, you want it to be as stripped down as possible so that you can include it on the front page.

Let me know if you need further instructions. :)

Donna

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ajmusic24
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Jan 25, 2004, 3:55 PM

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Re: [Donna] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

If I strip down the _index.html template then what page will I use to display all the news items (on one page)?

Thanks,
Anthony

Donna
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Jan 25, 2004, 4:51 PM

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Re: [ajmusic24] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi AJ,

With News Manager, you can really only have one or the other -- your headlines published as an include on the front page, or your headlines published on their own page. News Manager is a very simple content management system, sort of a "Lite" product.

If you want to have headlines separate from your main pages, you'll want to look at Article Manager, which is much more full featured than News Manager and can easily publish headlines separate from the main pages.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. :)

Donna

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ajmusic24
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Jan 26, 2004, 1:16 PM

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Re: [Donna] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Ok, when I strip down the _index.html template to just display the $name$ and $date$ it displays everything including the content. How do I get it to just display the name and date?

Thanks,
AJ

Donna
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Jan 26, 2004, 3:31 PM

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Re: [ajmusic24] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi AJ!

Thanks for your post. :)

You'll want to remove the $summary$ placeholder from your _index.html template. For example, here's what your _index.html might contain to view just the name & date:

Code

<!-- template insert : $list$ --> 
<!-- templatecell : row --> 
<p><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=460><tr><td> 
<a href="$url$"><font face="arial" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>$name$</b></font></a> - <font face="arial" style="font-size: 12px;">$date$</font><Br> 
</td></tr></table> 
<!-- /templatecell : row --> 
<!-- templatecell : notfound --> 
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=460><tr><td> 
<font face="arial" style="font-size: 13px;">Sorry, no articles have been listed.  Please check back soon!</font><Br> 
</td></tr></table> 
<!-- /templatecell : notfound -->

Let me know if this works for you. :)

Donna

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ajmusic24
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Jan 26, 2004, 7:58 PM

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Re: [Donna] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Donna,

I just tried the code that you gave me as my _index.html template and I still get everything (Title, Date, and content). I just want the title and date.

Thanks,

AJ

ajmusic24
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Jan 26, 2004, 9:12 PM

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Donna,

I just realized why my _index.html template was displaying everything. I changed the layout of my _article.html template and it effected the _index.htm template. Why does this happen? Why can't I change the _article.html template without it effecting the index.html?

Thanks,
AJ

ajmusic24
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Jan 26, 2004, 9:59 PM

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Re: [Donna] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Donna,

How do I display all of my news articles on one page using the _article.html template?

Thanks,
AJ

Donna
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Jan 27, 2004, 2:07 PM

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Re: [ajmusic24] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi AJ!

Hmm, I'm a little confused -- what shows up on your article page shouldn't influence your index page at all.

I think the best thing to do would be to let me have a look at your templates. So, you can fill out a support request with your FTP information here:

https://www.interactivetools.com/support/email_support.cgi

Thanks, AJ! I look forward to helping you. :)

Donna

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ajmusic24
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Jan 28, 2004, 5:35 AM

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Re: [Donna] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Donna,

Actually I figured out why this was happening. Now my issue is, how do I display all of my news articles on one page using the _article.html template? I stripped down the _index.html page to just display the name and date and included it on my homepage. Now I want to be able to click the name and open up the article's page with all the articles on that page.

Thanks
AJ

Cliff
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Jan 28, 2004, 11:27 AM

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Re: [ajmusic24] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi AJ,

You can use that same SSI  on the _article.hmtl template to output the full list of news articles. So something like this would work:

Code

<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=460> 
	<tr> 
		<td> 
			<!--#include virtual="/nm/publish/index.htm" --> 
		</td> 
		<td> 
			$image$<font face="arial" style="font-size: 13px;">$content$</font><Br> 
		</td> 
	</tr> 
</table>

This should put your list of all the articles in the left column, and the content of the current article in the right column.

I hope that helps, but if you need more info just let me know.
Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
[email]support@interactivetools.com[/email]

skunker
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Aug 21, 2004, 9:50 PM

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Re: [Cliff] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Okay,

I am trying to accomplish what 'ajmusic24' was asking for in his original post. I want to display the news on my main homepage. I know that News Manager does not do this as a default, but if I use SSI, I can accomplish this. Correct?

If so, do I first "turn on" the "Allow SSI Tags" feature?

After I did that, I then created a test page titled "index.shtml" in my root directory with the following code: 

For now, I am just using the default index template as a test. The index.shtml page is also blank. I just wanted to test it and see if I could get the SSI to appear. I re-published a few fake articles.

So far it has not appeared. What am I doing wrong?

My URL: http://www.thealamofilm.com/index.shtml

Thanks!

skunker
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Aug 22, 2004, 9:17 AM

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Re: [skunker] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Problem solved.....carry on. Carry on...nothing to see here. Just passing through...

Moirakris
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Aug 4, 2007, 7:42 AM

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Re: [ajmusic24] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

I have the server side includes working and the Title links are showing fine...but when you click on it to read the article it cannot find it. It wants to look in the public_html directory for the news_1.html page instead of in the /nm/publish/ directory.

Moira

Jake
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Aug 5, 2007, 1:25 PM

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Re: [Moirakris] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi Moira,

Thanks for posting!

Unless your default publish directory is the root directory of your server, you'll need to specify the path to the article file. To do this, open up your "_index.html" template and look for this line of code:

<a href="$url$">

Just add the path to News Manager's publish directory infront of the $url$ part, like this:

<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/nm/publish/$url$">

After making this change, your links should work correctly.

Don't hesitate to contact us if you need anything else. Smile

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Moirakris
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Aug 6, 2007, 1:40 AM

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Re: [Jake] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks Jake, that worked well, although I just needed to add /nm/publish/ in and not the www...com before it.

Forgive me I am a little slow here I guess but I do have another question. Right now the page the articles show on is very plain, I'd like it to open inside a template of the site. Would I have to incorporate my site template to the _article.html (including adding .../ where necessary so that all the images and such show) or is there an easier way I am just not thinking of to accomplish this.

Example would be like one of your featured sites Annies Nannies

Yes I am just full of questions! (:

Moira

Donna
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Aug 7, 2007, 2:15 PM

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Re: [Moirakris] News Manager Titles on homepage [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi Moira,

The easiest method is to simply modify our templates to include your look & feel. Generally, if you've got an existing layout already, you'd just need to copy & paste in your header/footer/navigation, etc, leaving the News Manager code where the body of your site would be.

That's exactly what the site you linked to did. :)

I hope this helps! Let me know if you're still having trouble.

Donna

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