[TYPO3-ttnews] Switch to news2

[W. van den Akker]

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 15:14 +0200, Georg Ringer wrote:

> Hi Willem,
> 
> 1st of all: it is news, not news2 - this has changed already some months 
> ago.

Ah ok..

> 
> Am 14.09.2011 14:39, schrieb W. van den Akker:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to switch from tt_news to news2.
> > I have some questions before I gone switch:
> > - is news2 production stable?
> 
> yes. of course it got bug as every other extension but I and other 
> companies use it on productive sites.


Great.


> 
> > - I use LIST2 on some pages. Can that be done with news2? I can't find
> > it.
> 
> what is LIST2? I never understood that concept of tt_news.
> news got list and single view and list view is configurable in many 
> different ways.


Shall give that a try.


> 
> >    Also the LATEST view.
> 
> what is the difference between list and latest? IMO just the time frame. 
> set the setting "Time limit" to e.g. "-10 days" and this will be used.


Indeed its a good alternative.


> 
> > - I see the excludeAlreadyDisplayedNews option is planned for 2.0. Is
> > there
> >    some code available? I have pages with a LIST/LIST2 view where the
> > first
> >    records are shown in LIST and the rest in LIST2. I want to avoid
> > double news
> >    on the same page.
> 
> currently no code available and also not that easy to do. can you 
> sponsor code or money?


I use the website for a non-profit organisation. However I am a
programmer myself, so I
will dive into the code of tt_news and news. Perhaps I can build the
code.

Willem


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