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tonyolm
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Jun 7, 2003, 12:50 PM

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they want an admin page to just change the strip of news on the left of the page. The ads on the side and everything above the news stays the same.





THey basiaclly just want a strip of articles without the titles being linked to a full page. Like just the summaries and titles without links to the article (content) pages.



Tony

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Mike R
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Jun 7, 2003, 3:14 PM

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Re: [tonyolm] would new manager do this? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Tony,

Yes, that can be setup with News Manager.

By default, News Manager publishes just summaries to the main index page with links to the full article pages. But by modifying the templates, you can configure it to publish the full articles to the main page so that it's not necessary to click the link to get to the full story (the link can be removed entirely by editing the temlpates).

I hope this helps, and let me know if you have any additional questions. :-)
Mike Roulston
interactivetools.com


tonyolm
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Jun 7, 2003, 3:16 PM

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Re: [Mike R] would new manager do this? [In reply to] Can't Post
Yes this helps :)



So who has an example of a template that has been modified to do so :)


Mike R
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Jun 7, 2003, 3:34 PM

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Re: [tonyolm] would new manager do this? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Tony,

I just looked through our News Manager featured clients list at:

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/newsmanager/clients.html

... but I didn't find any sites that have News Manager setup this way.

Basically, all that would be required to set this up is to remove the link code from the template (the code that adds the link to the full article), and then replace the $summary$ placeholder with $content$. I just did a quite test and it works perfectly. :-)

And for that matter, you could just remove the link code from the template, and then when creating the articles, add the entire article into the "summary" text area. Whichever method you prefer.
Mike Roulston
interactivetools.com


tonyolm
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Jun 8, 2003, 1:12 PM

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Re: [Mike R] would new manager do this? [In reply to] Can't Post
awesome, this is why we recommend your products to people who we host sites for.