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Update: On a live site running 8.2.1.11 (The above is a development site):

At least the name of the news item comes with the parameters like so: /Nyhederv2/name-of-newsv2-item.aspx?PID=6054&M=NewsV2&Action=1

I'd really like no parameters in the url.

Hi Victor,

I would go with the Items - you can see an example here: http://items.dynamicweb.dk/en-US/News

I think the items is much more flexible than the News-module as you can add more fields and better categorize the "news".

For the urls you can use: <!--@ItemPublisher:Item.Url-->, at least in the latest version of DW, and have nice looking urls.

Best regards, Anders

Thanks for the tips guys.

(sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation)

 Looks like items is the way to go.

 But how do you make sure that the page that  points to, has a template that outputs @Item tags.

 I assume you're not using the Item publisher's details template (DetailsUrl)

 I'm using news as item pages and those two (DetailsUrl & Item.Url) do two different things.

 Like the news page example Anders posted, I'd like a main page that lists subpages (items) and uses pretty urls (Item.Url) to show them. I don't want to have to manually select an news-item layout for each new page.

 Where as if using DetailsUrl, it would use my selected template but use urls with ?itemId=Nyhed:1

Are you following me? I'm having a tough time communicating this.

Regards, Victor

Hi Victor,

You can create a page layout for your News items and set this layout as default Item page layout in the website layout settings. 

On our items example site, http://items.dynamicweb.dk/, we're doing this. See https://github.com/dynamicweb/itembasedmodules#usage for a short description on how to do it yourself (substitute News for Blog in the description).

Best regards,
Mikkel

 

Hi Mikkel and thanks for your super fast reply! :)

(I've yet to try it) But this is probably, exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks again!

When you create an Item it is automaticlly saved and will therefore appear immediatly in an ItemPublisher listing or as a published Item - that is to say before you have had the time to add the content.  The work around is to add (example) a checkbox to your item so that the item only appears on the web page when the checkbox = "True".

<!--@If(ItemPublisher:Item.Published="True"-->
**** ItemPublisher content goes here ****
<!--@EndIf-->

OR

<!--@If(Item.Published="True"-->
**** Item content goes here ****
<!--@EndIf-->

Cheers

// David

 Tested in 8.3.0.6

Thanks for the tip David.

Regards, Victor

One more thing though..

A rich text editor in an item does not use editor.css?

I've made an editor.css file so that when editing in backend, it looks the same as in frontend.

But that's doesn't seem to be used by the RTE in my news item. I hope it's possible or else it might confuse people working on the site.

UPDATE: The item editor uses /Files/stylesheet1.css which I changed to be have the same content as /Files/Templates/Designs/<template-name>/editor.css

Might not be an ideal solution for a multi-site configuration with different designs.

Regards, Victor