News + Child category

[alex7575]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to do something with the news module.
I've have a main category called '2006' and some children called 'Jan', 'Feb', ...

On my homepage, I would like to show the last 6 news of the category '2006' so I wrote this but it does not work:

{cms_module module='news' category='2006' summarytemplate='my_template.tpl' number='6'}

Does anyone got an idea to print the last news of my category called '2006'?

Alex

[Elijah Lofgren]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to do something with the news module.
I've have a main category called '2006' and some children called 'Jan', 'Feb', ...

On my homepage, I would like to show the last 6 news of the category '2006' so I wrote this but it does not work:

{cms_module module='news' category='2006' summarytemplate='my_template.tpl' number='6'}

Does anyone got an idea to print the last news of my category called '2006'?

Hmm... It looks like we need to make parent categories show the posts in the child categories.
I'll look into it and see if it is not too hard to add this.

[Elijah Lofgren]

On my homepage, I would like to show the last 6 news of the category '2006' so I wrote this but it does not work:

{cms_module module='news' category='2006' summarytemplate='my_template.tpl' number='6'}

Does anyone got an idea to print the last news of my category called '2006'?

I just found this in the help for the News module:

...
(optional) category="category" - Only display items for that category. Use * after the name to show children. Multiple categories can be used if separated with a comma. Leaving empty, will show all categories.
...

I tried it and it works. 

Try this:

{cms_module module='news' category='2006*' summarytemplate='my_template.tpl' number='6'}

[Dr.CSS]

so am i to assume that this mens we can put the tag in a page and it will show Categories...
is this from the newest News Module?...

[alex7575]

Thanx dude, works great

{cms_module module='news' category='2006*' summarytemplate='my_template.tpl' number='6'}

[Elijah Lofgren]

so am i to assume that this mens we can put the tag in a page and it will show Categories...
is this from the newest News Module?...

It will show posts from the category and all subcategories. It should work with the News module included with CMSMS 0.13 also.

[Dr.CSS]

Thanx dude...  how you been long time no talk...
any chance i could just update my News in the 0.13-beta4 "Canary"...
very scared to upgrade, last time i tried, it started eating my pages... mostly when i moved the order of pages.. up or down...

[alex7575]

Thanx dude...  how you been long time no talk...
any chance i could just update my News in the 0.13-beta4 "Canary"...
very scared to upgrade, last time i tried, it started eating my pages... mostly when i moved the order of pages.. up or down...

Works great with "CMSMS 0.13" 

[Elijah Lofgren]

any chance i could just update my News in the 0.13-beta4 "Canary"...

Using CMSMS 0.13-beta4 and the News that comes with CMSMS 0.13 would probably work fine. They may not even be any different between them, I don't know.

very scared to upgrade, last time i tried, it started eating my pages... mostly when i moved the order of pages.. up or down...

That's quite odd. Hopefully when CMSMS 1.0 comes out you won't have that problem.