[TYPO3-ttnews] took a look at news

[Georg Ringer]

Hi Jordan,

Am 19.09.2011 19:08, schrieb Jordan van Bergen:
> I finally took a look at news (locally). Reading the explanation of
> Jigal:

Great! and thx to jigal for the explanation

> In the Extension Manager in the 'news' extension configuration you can
> activate the Import module in the menu (very clever, because after 
> you've imported the records you don't need the module and you can 
> deactivate it to clean up the menu!).

this is not the only reason. There is already code somewhere produced,
to import RSS feeds for example.

> So it looks promising. I will install this on the production server
> right away (tomorrow it will be live ;-) for 1 website so tt_news is
> gone on that website and start digging into news (locally) to learn
> the same things we learned the last 5 years about tt_news. 

awesome!

> Certainly I will miss some things and need other info to get
> everything working as I already know but I will really take a close
> look and tell in about 3 months if it was easy to convert to news
> using a website with 2.000+ newsitems and 10+ categories with 100+
> subcategories. 

you will certainly miss some things but you also won't miss pibase after
some months doing templates and stuff.

> I assume it's okay to ask some questions about news if I can't find
> the answers directly in this newsgroup or in the manual?

For sure!

Georg