[TYPO3-ttnews] Best practice for headline news?

[Matthew Manderson]

This is not a full solution because I can't see at the moment how you would
achieve it.

But, I would look at each of the 5 sections as separate news areas and give
each one it's own LIST and pid folder to store the respective news in.

This allows you to add new items in each area and leave the remainder in
place.

When you want to show them all as a list just pick the PIDS to display the
LIST from.

Another approach if you need the 5 areas to be linked try archiving the news
you want removed from the list and the non archived news will move up the
list.

If you use the archive feature to remove items from the front page, then I
think you can still recover them in a list by using both LIST and ARCHIVE
to display them collectively in say date order.

HTH
Matthew 


Frank wrote:

> Anyone?
> 
> "Frank" <frank.sonck at freebel.net> schreef in bericht
>
news:mailman.1.1149808112.29818.typo3-project-tt-news at lists.netfielders.de...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to make a news homepage with 5 selected news items and 1 most
>> important (headline) item on top and with its own style. I've read in
>> this group that I can put two tt_news plugins on the page. For the
>> headline item: a LATEST selection, limited to 1 item. For the 5 selected
>> items a LIST or LATEST, limited to 5 items. Each plugin its own css and
>> template and so on.
>>
>> But how to select the news items? Let's say I have already 500 items.
>> Today I enter 10 new items. There is 1 that I want to make headliner. I
>> could give it a special category 'headliner'. And do this each day. With
>> a LATEST selection the newest headliner would come out. But if I want to
>> make the previous headliner item today's number one, for whatever reason?
>> Then I have a problem. In fact there should always only be one headliner
>> item, ie the one that I choose.
>> Does anyone have an idea how I could realise this?
>>
>> And the same thing for the 5 selected items on the homepage. I've
>> introduced 10 new items. It's not just the 5 last ones (chronologically)
>> that are my choice for the homepage. No, I pick them out. How to do this?
>>
>> Fot both problems the StartId options doesn't seem usefull, because the
>> number of items and also number of id 's keeps growing?
>>
>> And then, while thinking of picking items out in the back-end. How will
>> this back-end (list view) look if I have 500 items. Will it be just a
>> very long list / page? How to find back an item?
>>
>> Thanx in advance for the advice!
>> Frank
>>