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News 2.0 is simply not having it... placing {cms_module module="news" } on a normal page produces no output. Setting up a page as a News page gives a basic output but the title link and the Read More>> link simply take you to the admin interface whether you are logged in or not.

I know there was some debate in an earlier post but none of the solutions in there seem to have any effect. I've replaced the whole module from SVN to no avail.

Anyone else had this happen or can shed some light?

Thanks...

Well, trust me to follow the instructions

In the help section of the news module (from whence I copied and pasted the tag) it tells you to use {cms_module module="news"} but when I cahnged the syntax to {cms_module module='news'} (note quotes on word news) it worked and output was restored!

Is that a PHP thing?

The damn news-only page still isn't working tho - I'll have to reset it to a normal content page with a tag if I can fix it.

I think you entered the tag using an WYSIWYG editor, right? That will change the " to the respective HTML entity. That's all.

The WYSIWYG has been modified to not make that change.  At least it's supposed to be...

I can reproduce that the "Read More" link leads to the admin section instead of showing the news page.

i had a similar problem when i left the "content" required filed empty.


-iozzi

Could I ask that someone in the know updates the Help section on the News module? It's simply way out of date and contains paramaters that don't work any more.

The addition of how to display all items for a parent category and how to deal with children only would also be a boon.

For those that haven't figured it out or didn't find Patricia's post you do this:

{cms_module module="news" category="parent*"}
{cms_module module="news" category="parent*child"}