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Summary modules (to display top content from other pages)

Last post 06-05-2008, 3:55 PM by BarryN. 2 replies.
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  •  05-09-2008, 10:17 AM 6767

    Summary modules (to display top content from other pages)

    Current behavior:
    Wild Apricot has a number of dynamic pages (aka Functional pages, aka modules), such as forum, blog, events etc. Currently there is no easy way to display a summary of recent activity on those pages somewhere else (usually this is needed for the homepage).

    Workaround:

    For pages with RSS feed (blog, events) it is possible to take that feed and wrap it in a widget using third-party tools such as widgetbox.com.

    Desired behavior:
    Ability to insert summaries of activity on other pages, for example on the homepage.

    Notes:
    Suggestions about specific summary modules - how they should look like and what functionality they should offer would be appreciated.


    Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot
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  •  05-29-2008, 4:11 PM 7364 in reply to 6767

    Re: Summary modules (to display top content from other pages)

    This is incredibly important to us. We need an easy way to produce an event summary on the homepage. This would be a HIGH priority for us.

    Regards,

    Bill 

  •  06-05-2008, 3:55 PM 7637 in reply to 6767

    Re: Summary modules (to display top content from other pages)

    This would be very useful to us.  We have an industry news page that is comprised of blog postings.  The ability to have a summary on home page would be great.  What would be even better is the ability to assemble different summary blocks (e.g. events calendar, blog/news items) into an email format that could be sent as a newsletter.  Even better if the blocks could be pasted into other mail programs, for those of us who have non-member mailing lists housed in other locations

    Specifically, I would like to be able to create a home page that, for our organization, would contain the following:

     

    A block with a summary of all relevant Industry News (i.e. blog) titles only.  Links from the titles would open each article.  If there were more than one blog page, we could put the summary of each on the same page.  We should have the ability to select the range of posting titles to present (ie all new postings in the last week, month, date range, etc.)

     

    A block with a summary of upcoming event titles only, as links to the actual event listing.  Should be able to select events by date range etc.

     

    A block with a summary of new Forum posts.

     

    It would be good to be able to arrange these blocks on a page and format their appearance.

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