[SOLVED] Help with news module

[george_gr]

Hi,

Is there any way to force some text into the content text area of a news item when adding new news items ?

The way it stands now  you can not submit news if they are empty. I am looking to find a way around that because I want to display only the titles anyway. At the moment I have to manually add some characters to be able to submit the news item, but would really like to find a way not to have that. Anyone know where the check is made ?

Thanks
George

[Dr.CSS]

News is like a page if nothing in the content box it wont submit, you don't have to have anything in the summary, if you don't put anything in the content why make a News item, like really, where is the title going to go to a blank news detail...

I think what you want is to only display the title link to the News item, w/o date, category, summary, more link, etc., easy enuf, just make a new News summary template with just the title link, then in news tag {news summarytemplate='titleonlytemplate'} (titleonlytemplate is whatever you named it)...

[Wishbone]

News is like a page if nothing in the content box it wont submit,

Somewhere between 1.6.6 and 1.9 they changed that rule for regular pages. Even though "*Content" has a star next to it, which makes it look like it's mandatory, it doesn't seem to be mandatory any more, though they didn't make the same change for News.

[Wishbone]

I tried some clever manipulation of the form template to do this.. Is the "formtemplate" option only for FEU? No matter what I did to the default form, it didn't seem to change backend news editing.

[george_gr]

Hi,

Well i checked it out a bit.

The only way to circumvent this is to edit.

/modules/news/action.addarticle.php

... snip....

Ofcourse this makes the installation non standard which sucks for future upgrades....
But at least it covers my needs for the moment.

Thanks guys
George