[SoundCafe]

I am trying to create a widget to show recent news in the cp, somehow i cannot get it to display the recent news like i want. I would like it to show the news item title, a few lines from the news item, the date, and category of the news item.

This is what i have so far:

login_note.tpl

<div class="widget-content">

<ul class="news-items">
<li>
{jr_ranking mode="blog" band_id="0" order="1" category="News" row_template="blog_news_row_2.tpl" pagebreak=1 pagenum=1}


</li>
<li>
{jr_ranking mode="blog" band_id="0" order="1" category="News" row_template="blog_news_row_2.tpl" pagebreak=1 pagenum=2}

</li>
<li>
{jr_ranking mode="blog" band_id="0" order="1" category="News" row_template="blog_news_row_2.tpl" pagebreak=1 pagenum=3}


</li>
</ul>

</div> <!-- /widget-content -->

blog_news_row_2.tpl
<div class="news-item-detail">
<a href="{$JAMROOM_URL}/ranking.php?mode=blog&message_id={$MESSAGE_ID}&row_template=blog_news_row.tpl" class="news-item-title">{$MESSAGE_TITLE}</a>
<p class="news-item-preview">{$MESSAGE_TEXT|nl2br|jr_bbdecode|jr_safe_truncate:80}</p>
</div>

<div class="news-item-date">
<span class="news-item-day">{$MESSAGE_TIME|jr_date_format:"date2"}</span>
<span class="news-item-month">{$MESSAGE_CATEGORY}</span>
</div>

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[SteveX]

You would use one ranking call, with show="3" rather than 3 ranking calls. It's all covered in great detail in the documentation:

http://www.jamroom.net/Jamroom4_Ranking_System
http://www.jamroom.net/Jamroom4_ranking_common_variables
http://www.jamroom.net/Jamroom4_ranking_blog


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[SoundCafe]

just tried that, nothing changes. i have a ranking call similar to that for a carousel, with the page-breaks i mean, its working perfectly. can't figure out what's wrong with this one, the code makes sense to me though.

[SteveX]

It does change, you are making 1 ranking call not 3, which is the right way to do it, rather than the wrong way.

You will want to change your carousel ranking calls as well.

What are you seeing output to the page? A link would be easiest.


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Kulshi Mezian!

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[SoundCafe]

that's the funny part, no output at all, not even a coma, nothing.unless if maybe there is an issue with directories, the widget itself is in the cp folder, but the row_template is in the skin dir. i don't know why, but its totally blank. if there was a little output i might be able to debug it myself, but now....

[SteveX]

Quote:

If you would like the returned results to only include Blog Entries that were written by a specific User ID, you can provide the User ID as the "message_author" parameter - i.e. message_author="0" (for only admin messages).

This is from a page linked to above, so lose the band_id and try message_author instead.


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