[TYPO3-ttnews] Thoughts about news2

[Robert Wildling]

Hi everybody,

thanks, Thomas, for your input! I share the same opinion in most if you 
ideas.
I would like to bring in my 2 cents, too:

My most favorite one:

- Additional date fields for Events / Sorting (1): Since there are many 
cases where tt_news is used as an event calender, there should be 
additional date fields that can be used as event date. (There is an 
extension existing right now that extends tt_news in just that 
manner...) These field should enable a sorting according to when these 
events happen (and not to when the respective news entry was 
written/published).

The following ideas are more of a cosmetic nature....

- Sorting (2): a good sortable list overview in the BE would be great, 
too. The features right now seem too little, when it comes to many 
entries... (of course it can be done the "TYPO3" way, which is awesome, 
but thinking of my clientel, there are some, who have trouble 
understanding the clipboard etc)

- Enough hooks (but maybe extbase handles this feature automatically 
now... I don't know yet; I mention this because the developer of the 
tt_news event ext mentions in the manual that there are hooks missing at 
the moment...)

- Lightbox for content (addon to Thomas' list): I think, it was you, 
Georg, who actually presented a solution for that problem in one of your 
other extensions via defining a new page type that has no document body 
... or so ...  I don't know if there can be an "out of the box" feature 
that enables the more link to open the main content in a lightbox...


I hope you don't feel pushed, Georg. :-)

ALl my best to you!
Robert


> On 06.01.2011 22:15, Thomas Kowtsch wrote:
>> OK, here we go:
>
> One note ahead: I haven't tested news2 in detail so far, I want to 
> write down my ideas and wishes only from tt_news perspective before 
> being inspired by news2 so far.
> @Georg: In case that some things are already available take it as a 
> confirmation that it was worth the effort at least for me :-)
>
>> So, let's start this new thread to collect anything that comes in 
>> mind :-)
>
> - One very clumsy thing in tt_news is the integration of lightbox 
> extensions. I never made it to something working to both have 
> lightboxes for "normal" news *and* to make "external link"-news 
> (linking to PDF downloads) working as expected. Suggestion: Include a 
> distinct "click-enlarge" feature as for standard "text w/ 
> image"-content elements to switch image ressource behavior.
> - In general, lightbox inclusion snippets should be collected by key 
> users and either be added to the extension docu or provided to 
> lightbox extension authors.
> - A very helpful thing for me is to provide news on a general page 
> whenever they are available and to display only currently applicable 
> one's by date on other pages (eg., announcing new publications on a 
> overview page and showing the current one using LATEST view on the 
> front page)
> - default cropping should be aware of HTML-tags (eg., use cropHTML)
> - A "fool-save" migration of existing records is needed
> - Some kind of native "Link to file"-support would be helpful for me: 
> If you just want to notify about a new file that provides alsoan image 
> (such as a PDF), you have to use the type "external link" today and 
> you need to assign the same file as image. An easy way to simply 
> select a target file that's used both as link target and image/media 
> file could help a lot.
> - Valid RSS/ATOM/... (including optional small images) feeds are a 
> must have
>
>> And, not to forget: Ideas how to help Georg are welcome as well!
>
> - Testing, testing, testing
> - Provide clear bug reports/feature requests in the bugtracker (error 
> messages, expected behaviour vs. what's happening today)
> - Provide feedback for the docu
> - "spread the word"
> - Help with bugfixes
>
> Now it's up to you :^p
>
> Thomas
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