[Typo3-dev] tt_news another suggestion/question :))

[Toni Milovan]

Well, Stig is already aware of the problem. After some thinking I also
vote for new display element be it called single box or teaser box.

There are a few more issues to be named in tt_news but before that:

A question for Stig: how many of you are working on extenstion? do you
need an help?


Toni


On Pon, 2004-06-14 at 22:49, Alexander Suellentrop wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > If I include news latest element in template (to be available on all
> > pages) when I'm on page that contains news single record, my latest
> > record becomes single too.
> >
> > That is easily solved by changing line 332 of
> > tt_news/pi/class.tx_ttnews.php to:
> >
> > if ($this->tt_news_uid && ($theCode=="SINGLE" ||
> > $this->config["displayCurrentRecord"])) {
> 
> That's what I did as well. And I keep getting problems, for example when I
> select a certain month in the archive my latest box changes from displaying
> the very latest news to displaying the latest news of the selected month
> which is not intended, of course. But these problems occur only because the
> latest view is not to be used the way we (and many others) use it :P
> 
> > should we have another display mode for showing latest news as template
> > element (such I've described above), should we tweak exising "LATEST"
> > mode so we can choose if it will always be latest (if on every page) or
> > should it resolve to single (if page content element), or finally should
> > we let it be just as is and tweak code manually if we need latest as a
> > template element?
> 
> Since the archive, or the search function affects the latest view i'd
> recommend having a new mode, let's say "latest_box" which ALWAYS displays
> the last entries, now matter if any month is selected/single view is
> displayed/search is done.
> 
> I already tried to implement something like that but unfortunately I'm not
> able to do that yet :(
> 
> We might have to ask Stig for some help...
> 
> Regards,
> Aleks.
> 
> 
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