ASP-Nuke Community v1.4 Forum Guide
Chapter 1
Hi! Finally, you have put to work your forum area. But you want more...Each time
you post an interestin topic you want to advertise it with a news. So this news
can be showed on the main page of yuor site.
You're lucky. Asp-Nuke 1.4 has this feature. Every time you (loged as
an admin) posted a topic on the forum; you have seing the option 'Advertise a
topic with a News'. But you didn't know how to use it. Well, in this chapter you
will learn how.
Note: In order to complete the next example your site must
have a forum and a section already created.
First you need to login as an administrator in your site. Then you have to
follow a few steps in order to set up the sytem to allow this new feature:
Advertise a topic with a News.
- Go to the Administration area.
- The Administration main page will be showed.
- Go to the Administration - Categories section.
- On the Search - Categories box, click on the News
link.
- The Categories / News box will display the News
subcategories already created.
- Click on the Add - Category link.
- The Edit - Category Form will be displayed.
- Fill the fields as follow:
Title [Forum] *
Description
[Forum topics news] *
- And press Submit button.
- Now go to System Param section.
- The System Params Box will be displayed.
- Look for the 'Forum.AdvPostNewsCategoryName' parameter and click
on the edit button on the same row.
- The Edit - System Param form will be displayed.
- On the field Value put [Forum], as the category title
previously created.
- And press Submit button.
Ok. Now we are ready to post a news from the forum section:
- Go to the section where you want to post the new
topic.
- Click on the New Topic button.
- The New topic form will be displayed
- Fill the topic properties as follow, for example:
Title [My first
advertised topic]
Message [Hi, my friends. This is my first advertised
topic, but not the last... so keep your attention on the following days]
- Now is the most important step: check the option
'Advertise this Post with a News'.
- Also, you can check the option 'Tacked' to look this
topic on the top of the topic list for its section.
- And press the Post button
- The Post - successfull adding box will be thisplayed.
- There you can jump to edit the news the system have created for the
topic.
As you can see, the topic news is pre-formated thanks to a few LANG_ items
that you can modify. You have to put special attention on the end date field. If
the End Date is older than the Date, the news will NEVER be displayed. If all is
ok you can press the submit button, or just leave all as is, and jump to other
page.
Now you can go to the main page to see the effect of the topic news. If there
is no error you have to see the topic news on the Top 10 News box, on main page.
So enjoy it!
Uhf! I think that's all for the first chapter.
Next time more and better...
Regards!
Mr.Winriders
(Please, forgive my poor english!)