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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
The following is an outline for a news modules envisioned by Marc Oesch & Will Scheidegger.
News detail / entry view:
- HTML-Formatted content (inside the body text) with following fields:
- Title
- Subtitle / Summary
- Body text
- "Footer/Attachment" (attached URLs or files in later version ?)
- Attached Pictures to news (later version: thumbnail generation on server side

- Picture description for each picture

- Set Category: A News item can be assigned to one or several categories
(not compulsory, a news item can also have no category) - Start/End date:
The default startdate is today (so the news gets published immediately once it's approved)
There can also be an optional end date.
Question: Should the dates by days or exact to
hours and minutes (may be a requirement for big customers, eg. for a press release) ?
Question: Is is possible to set a Timezones or is the server time zone taken ? - Flag for language
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Rating:
- Viewers can rate a news item with 1-5 stars (probably for a later version)
"Permlink":
- As in many blog systems, a news item will display the permanent link after being published.
This allows to bookmark news items even though they are currently on the front page
and the URL will still work later (eg. after news is put into an archive).
List views:
- Sort by time limits/"time windows" (number of days to skip...)
- Sort by number of entries (number of items to skip..)
- Sort by category
Default: Show 'all categories' (including news with no category)
Default: Show only Title / Summary in list views (entire content is only shown in detail view)
News Archive:
- Option1 : Put news item(s) to archive automatically after end date is reached
- Option2: Put news item(s) to archive at any time "manually"
- Option 2a: By picking them individually (checkboxes)
- Option 2b:By setting a deadline, eg. 'all news older than Dec 31, 2003.
Archive sorting options:
- Sort by A-Z (sorted by news titles)
Note: Ueli Scheidegger thought this is unnecessary, probably better solved by a good Search mechanism,
he is right.
- Sort/Search by date: By year > 12 months (30 days rectangle calendar > monthly >
Days with entries have an active link (could be like in Web log systems). A click on the
link will show all news entries for that day.
- Idea for later: Gallery module :
The list view will be thumbnails instead of news titles and abstracts/subtitles.
Based on the above News module, a gallery module with thumbnails (original size via pop-up window
or in a detail) could be done for picture content.
A lot of functionality could probably be reused from the News module.
Checklists
Acceptance criteria