RE: Articles Madness

Hi Christian,

 

After checking with the developers, they informed me that there is really no way to use the articles modules to filter by category.

 

The “Article List” module filters by article type, but none of them will filter by category.

 

Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns regarding this at all.

 

Thank you,

 

Bryon Kuehn

James Tower

AdmissionsGenie Support Project Manager

507.344.5438

AIM: bryonpkuehn

bpkuehn@jamestower.com

 

From: Kuehn, Bryon P. (James Tower)
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:50 PM
To: Christian Burk
Cc: Wacker, Darren R. (James Tower); Undergrad Website Issues; Kuehn, Bryon P. (James Tower)
Subject: RE: Articles Madness

 

Hi Christian,

 

Attached is the drafted documentation for the article modules. There are now 5 article modules in the AG system:

·         Article Manager

·         Articles – My Interests

·         Article List

·         Articles – View All

·         Article Content

 

The reason there are now 5 modules is so that each module can be implemented on a separate page if necessary and used in different purposes.

 

The documentation goes into detail as to what each of the modules does but below is a quick summary of what each does.

1)    Article Manager: Central place to add, edit or maintain your articles

2)    Articles – My Interests: This brings up an Article Accordion module that shows my interest(standard) articles in an accordion view sorted by category

3)    Article List: This can be setup to display a specific number of Headline, Feature, or My Interest (standard) articles. This is what would normally display on your homepage as a list of links to articles.

4)    Articles – View All: This module will allow you to view all articles when the user clicks the “view all” link

5)    Article Content: This is where the articles content will actually display on the site.

 

As for what you are trying to do with categories, I’m not finding a way to do this at the moment. The categories really only apply to the “My Interest” articles only from what I can recall.

 

I hope this documentation as well as my descriptions help clear up some of your frustration points for the time being. I will check with the developers to make sure I’m not missing anything referring to the categories and see if they know of a way to accomplish what you are trying.

 

Let me know if you have questions or concerns in the meantime.

 

Thank you,

 

Bryon Kuehn

James Tower

AdmissionsGenie Support Project Manager

507.344.5438

AIM: bryonpkuehn

bpkuehn@jamestower.com

 

From: Christian Burk [mailto:christianburk@creighton.edu]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 9:14 AM
To: Kuehn, Bryon P. (James Tower)
Cc: Wacker, Darren R. (James Tower); Undergrad Website Issues
Subject: Articles Madness

 

Hi, Bryon,
I’m getting frustrated by these new Articles modules. How do they work?
Why are there so many?

Basically, I’m trying to use the categories as a filter so that I can place certain kinds of stories on certain pages: outcomes, academics, omaha, etc.

But I’m having trouble finding which module (if any) will let me do this.

Please help ASAP.
Yours,
Christian
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