Re: Displaying latest articles

At 22:51 15/03/2005, you wrote:
>Say I have a front page.  I wish part of this page to display a portlet
>called "recent articles".  This would be a portlet containing a list with
>short-text descriptions (if a short-text page description was originally
>entered in the page its describes).  This list would display the last 10 or
>25 articles that were created on the portal (anywhere).  However, the
>displayed articles must only be those that the current user has access to
>read in the first place.  The generation of the list needs to be automatic
>-- no administrative intervention.  Perhaps a separate view for "public"
>viewers and those logged in?
>
>This would seem to be a fairly common need, so I am hoping that at least one
>of you have implemented a similar system and are willing to share
>code/insights on its implementation.

We have a filter called ContainerFilterByContainerDefinition that allows to 
retrieve all the containers from all the container lists that have a 
certain name, such as "News". Be careful though because this does imply 
some performance cost.

>I hate to bring up the calendar portlet again, but any ideas for
>implementing a calendar (public listing of events and seminars that viewers
>can sort by month and topic category)?  This would also seem to be a common
>need...

Two options:
- You develop a kind of "blog-like" template with some filters on dates on 
the containerlist events. We will package something like that in Jahia 4.1 
by default (next month)
- You wait for Jahia 4.5 with the new JSR168 support. We integrated a full 
calendar + synchronization module. More info here: 
http://cvspub.jahia.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/uwcal_JSR168/docs/

Cheers,
Stéphane



>Thanks!!!