Hey I am building a website for my college...
I encountered certain problems and I am gonna list down...so in case if you have suggestions or solutions....just indicate the problem number..
1) A want to put up a news module. Example of this can be viewed at: http://www.ieg.gov.in/jkc/
There is a particular block called News Updates. I want to enable that in my website, I used Ajax newsflash module but it seems to show everything that I update on the website including PHP code, html code and even when I attached a flash to my page...it played the flash file from the newsflash itself. So is there any better alternative where when a user creates a content he can choose to make it appear as news.
2) I have enabled modules called image, image assist, image attach etc. But then I am able to upload only one image at a time and I am unable to place the image in my editor after uploading. That is I want the image to appear in a certain order. My uploaded files appear in a folder and it shows as attached: http://img441.imageshack.us/i/problemc.png/
But I am unable to have total control of easy selection and reordering of images
3) I want to delete certain files of images uploaded by by user how can i do that.
4) I enabled Newsletter module. Our college specified that they'll attach college newsletters and magazines. So i enabled this module. But when I create a New page it asks me for the type of newsletter issue to be selected. I don't want this appear here. I want this Problem 1 and Problem 4 to be solved on similar basis. In the sense what I meant is that when I create a page I want to enable whether I want it to be put i n latest news or not, newsletter or not..etc and I want multiple options to be selected.
More problems will be asked......
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Hi roshanjose,
Suggestion for 1,
1. You can use ticketyboo News Ticker module to get a vertical scrolling News item block. This module will give you 5 blocks by default. Suppose you have a 'news' content type , you can configure the block to show items from this content type only. You can set the item height and block hieghts to set how many items you want to scroll by. Please read the INSTALL.txt file of this module for more info.
Suggestion for 2,
2. If you choose to attache multiple images though image_attach module, then it's a pain to display them as you want. I mean, you will need to prepare a specific tpl file for your content type to dicide the order of image display.
Rather I would suggest you to use the FCK Editor module & IMCE module, which will ease the process of file upload, file deletion, file reordering.
IMCE is an image/file uploader and browser that supports personal directories and quota.
Suggestion for 3,
3. Enabling IMCE module will help in file deletion too, depending on permission you give to the particular user.
Suggestion for 4,
Unable to understand your requirement. Can you write with example, about this issue!!
Thanks,
Ipsita
~ Ipsita Mishra
Thank you Ipsita. I didnt try
Thank you Ipsita. I didnt try your suggestions yet. I'll do so and let you know. Thank you very much.