News items do not display anymore

[henglein]

Summary: Newly added news items do not display any more as part of "news"

1. Setup: CMSMS 1.3.1, running on PHP 5, MySQL 5 on a webhotel (one.com), HTTP-server not determined.  (Precise versions, if  necessary to resolve issue, can be determined after suitable investigative work.). 100% vanilla setup: No modules added, conservative configuration choices of CMSMS.

2. Problem: Items added to (built-in) news module do no longer display on web page.  Specifically: A news item added through admin-interface "Add article" is reliably added to article repository.  Note: Only "General" category of news.  "Use Expiration Date" (sic) not selected.

3. Reproducibility: The error is reliably reproducible (on my installation) by adding an article (any article), without expiration date, in news category "General", and displaying a page that contains as single contents the tag "{news}". The news items will not be displayed.

4. Diagnosis: No idea.  But I hope to hear that there is a simple, known cause and correspondingly simple remedy.  It is noteworthy that articles added in identical fashion say 1 month ago display without problems.  This would point to changes in the context (HTTP-server, PHP-implementation/configuration, MySQL-system/configuration) of the installation.  Note, however, that ordinary content pages do display without problems.  Judging by the number of forum posts involving the news module, it  appears that that module may not be very robust and thus sensitive to minor system/module context changes.  The site can be seen at http://johannedal.dk/staun.org; the news page has header "Nyheder". Please note that this CMSMS-installation, barring custom style sheets and template files, is deliberately kept to be as simple as possible.

With thanks in advance--
Fritz

[viebig]

Hello Fritz,

Ok, that´s wierd,

Just rectifying you link http://johannedal.dk/staun.org

Just cehck a few considerations:

1. When you mean no longer displaying, does it ever displayed anything?
2. Check you news templates, see if there are any code
3. Try clearing the cache, on Global Settings (solve a lot of unknown problems)
4. Check if the status of the news -> should be published
5. Try to specify the category in the news tag

If you got nowhere after that checks, provide more relevant information, you can PM me anytime.

Hope that helps.

[Dr.CSS]

You have a call for news as it shows this...

Nyheder
         




May be you have a category call. have you checked the Users & Goups > Group Permissions > admin to make sure the permissions are all checked?...

[henglein]

Thanks for your help!  It got me nudged in the right direction.  As it turns out, I had previously added news as an *administrator*, but now tried doing it as an *editor*. (I figured I wouldn't use the administrator role any more after setup). 

Default-setup for the "editor" role, however, seems to be that they do *not* have permission to publish news.  That's curious, if it is really true -- I may somehow have unchecked that option during setup, though.  Unfortunately, the news interface for roles without permission to publish news does not alert one to the publication status of news added.  After having added "Approve news for front end display" to the editor role, the interface now makes the status of news added explicit for an editor -- and allows an editor to publish them.

Fritz