Products.SilvaNews 2.9.5

Properties tab

In the properties tab of newspublication there is a checkbox called ‘restrict access’. When this is checked, the folder can only be found by news- and agendafilters in the same folder the folder is on and each subfolder of that folder. This can be used to make the newspublication ‘private’, making it available only to for example 1 department.

The Filters’ edit tab

The contents tab of a newsfilter shows a list of all available newspublications (excluding the ones made private by checking the ‘restrict access’ checkbox that are not in the same folder or a parentfolder of the newsfilter). To route newsitems of a newspublication to newsviewers (more about those later) make sure the checkbox in front of the newspublication is checked and click the ‘update sources’ button. All (published) newsitems that conform to the criteria of the newsfilter will then be routed to the newsviewers that use this filter. These criteria can be set in the ‘Properties’ tab of the newsfilter: you see the lists of subjects and target audiences of service_news again, and in newsfilters also a couple of radiobuttons to select whether the filter should route agendaitems as well as articles. These criteria can be used to distribute articles and agendaitems in different ways across the Silva instance to newsviewers.

For example: a number of different newspublications can contain both articles and agendaitems of different subjects and targeting different audiences, and the newsfilters filter and distribute specific items to viewers. Please note that this means that filters must be sensibly set up for the site to allow all newsitems to be shown somewhere: it is very easy to set up the system in a way that articles and agendaitems with a specific subject or target audience are filtered out by all newsfilters, and therefore be excluded from all viewers.

The Items tab

The ‘Items’ tab can be used to filter out specific items, to allow editors and chiefeditors to disallow specific articles and agendaitems to be routed by a filter. To filter out a specific item, uncheck the checkbox in front of it and choose ‘update’.

Now the news- and agendaviewers can be placed. The viewers are the objects responsible for showing the articles and agendaitems to the public. An author can place viewers where he wants news to be shown. The viewers show a list of items routed by the filters.

New Features

• First release for Silva 2.2, no longer backwards compatible with prior Silva releases

• News and Agenda Viewers now have a “Year Range” property which controls the number of years in the past and future wich are displayed in the archive. Attempts to access years outside of this range will raise 404’s.

• SilvaNews has popup calendars for start/end datetimes in the SMI

• SilvaNews no longer manages it’s own upgraders. Upgrading SilvaNews is now tied into the core Silva upgrade process.

New Features ported from SNN 2.7.6

• removing ‘<<’ and ‘>>’ from links and putting the the html entities in a span

• adding wrappers for the news and agenda archive content area

• adding a vertical separator between months

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed issue that made that broken images in news items resulted in failing searches.

• Added ‘unblock’ css class to viewer field iterators so links render properly (resulting from removal of the sortable id/class)

• correct localization datetime issues with rssaggregator’s rss/atom feeds and inlineviewer newsprovider.

• AgendaViewers were pulling the latest number of items, rather than all items in X days.

• Update last author when an article/agenda item is saved in kupu.

New Features

• The RSS Aggregator now merges/sorts the feeds based on each feed item’s publication date.

Bugs Fixed

• The AgendaViewer displays the same number of characters for each item’s intro as NewsViewers do (i.e. 128)

New Features

• Moved the “new version” button in the editor screen below the feedback text, as opposed to nestled in the corner next to the text. This because a Silva trainer reported that a trainee couldn’t figure out how to make a new version. Now it’s more obvious, hopefully enough.

• added the end date/time and location properties of Agenda Items to the agenda item add screen.

• added the location property of Agenda Items to the public view

• working with Zope 2.10 (ala merge 2.4-zope-2.10-branch)

• registering content via ‘silva’ zcml directives

• worked up SilvaNews interfaces a bit

• Added a SilvaNewsCategoryFilter asset, which can be used to limit the category lists in Filters and the properties tool in the News Item editor.

• refactored the viewers, merging shared code

• Added metadata columns for frequently accessed newsitem data (including get_intro!)

• Refactored News/Agenda viewers:

  1. to use new metadata columns

  2. each of the three public views (standard, archive, search) uses a shared macro to render the items, ensuring consistent display between all three views.

• eliminated all calls to getObject() (catalogbrain) in the filters – since it’s a “slow” operation, the cases where this was required are now using the additional catalog metadata columns.

• Added rss.xml and atom.xml views, based on the Silva 2.0 rss.xml Container view. These use the framework laid out for container rss, and include extra tags for silvanews specific metadata (location, start,end dates)

• rss.xml and atom.xml also work for RSSAggregator

• Removed XMLBuffer, as it is no longer used

• added interfaces INewsViewer and IAgendaViewer. These interfaces can be used by SilvaLayout/Five to provide special views for news/agenda viewers.

• InlineNewsViewer was updated with some Z3 features, e.g. using the Z3 interface lookup.

• The default INV formulator form and view templates have new features including: containing div id and class, showing a search box, specifying article level, optional image thumbnail, where and whether to place links to articles, and possible a few others. If you’re using the default INV, you should refresh the template by going to the each INV’s url and adding ‘/refresh’, e.g. http://server.com/silva/inv/refresh

Bugs fixed

• Changed the new version button in the editor screen from an input to a button, to avoid css conflicts with frontend.css controls styles

• 176581: removed Category Filter preview tab, and registered a “dummy” public view for this content type

• 160505: SNN News Publications cannot have addables settings. It should, being News Publications inherit from Publications.

• viewers displayed items in reverse order when using multiple filters

• Improved (simplified the css of) the properties toolbox layout

• fix for broken rss feed caused by get_intro() not getting the model

• using ‘get_intro’ for RSS feeds introduced a bug in at least some RSS feeds. This has been worked around.

• fix in NewsFilter.get_next_items, to catch _all_ agenda item cases

• Publishing using the “publish now” button on the edit tab for news items was slightly broken. The resultant page returned after this action had a <base> tag set to the news item version instead of the news item itself, breaking navigation links.

Features added

• Made SilvaNews work with Silva 2.0/Zope 2.10.

Bugs fixed

• removed tal:attribute where tal:replace was called.

• added ‘en’ to i18n to make the fallback work.

Features added

• SilvaNews 2.4 is compatible with Silva 1.6+ only. For Silva 1.5 compatibility, the SilvaNews 2.3.x series should be used.

• added interfaces INewsViewer and IAgendaViewer. These interfaces can be used by SilvaLayout/Five to provide special views for news/agenda viewers.

Bugs fixed

• using ‘get_intro’ for RSS feeds introduced a bug in at least some RSS feeds. This has been worked around.

Features

• in tab_edit you can now see in the preview of a published NewsItem an infobox showing all related info

• changed layout more silva-core-like and improved usability cfr issue 1581

• uniformed css classes for view and viewer newsitems, un-div-ing

• more xhtml compliant

Bugs fixed

• fixed bug cfr revision 8871 removed can_approve()

• fixed rss icon cfr issue 1506, 1580

• fixed display date rendering and setting cfr issue 1601, 1603

• fixed publish now cfr issue 1605

• fixed imort/export of InlineNewsViewer cfr issue 1600

• fixed render error when a News viewer has a image and PIL is not installed cfr issue 1604

• news articles show now publication date or display date if set cfr issue 1602

• fixed broken external source cfr issue 1434

Features

• Reworked public templates: removed divs and replaced by p’s with Silva style plus news selectors, indenting, language

• Made layout of the INV (Inline News Viewer) more generic using standard Silva html classes

• Fixed space above kupu more robustly, so other extensions can control the feedback space too.

• RSS Aggregator public view: removed hard coded table and replaced with standard Silva html rendering

• Update publish controls with new layout. Still to be fixed is the switch from a publish now checkbox to a publish now button

Bugs fixed

• Update Kupu css with fixes for the Kupu in Firefox edit html problem

• Fixed space above kupu

• In the news filter the select all button aligns left

• Fixed broken rss image

• Fixed memory leakage in the Inline News Viewer

• Fixed some query variable names in the AgendaFilter

• Fixed i18n support

• AgendaItems spanning over a period of more than one month are now displayed the whole period rather than only the last month

Bugs fixed

• Added upgrader for a specific Zope 2.8.x issue, where some ZCatalog indexes had a new attribute defined, but the upgrader for that attribute wasn’t executed when required.

Features

• SilvaNewsNetwork now works on (and depends on!) Silva 1.5.

Features

• In each item in a news viewer, the first image of the item’s content (if available) is displayed as a thumbnail.

• Removed all tables from the public views to more easily allow styling and layouting with CSS (note that this changes the layout of the public views!)

• Added a new checkbox in Agenda Items, ‘display time’, to control whether the time part of start and end date/time is displayed in the public views, allowing times of 00:00 to be displayed.

• Added a couple of new fields to service_news to allow displaying dates and months in a certain locale and format (this is a global setting rather than a per-user one, because Silva content currently can not be presented in more than one language it doesn’t make sense to display dates and months in different languages).

• Added a new field ‘display_datetime’ to news items, rather than using the publication date/time to determine if and where an item is displayed in a news viewer, this display date is used, e.g. allowing re-publishing of an item without moving it in the public view of news viewers.

• Agenda items are now displayed according to the end datetime, if available, so that an item disappears from the list of ‘current events’ when it ends rather than when it starts.

• Subjects and target audiences now have a title, which allows changing the way they are displayed without having to update stored references to them (so you can now ‘change a subject’ and still have newsviewers display the correct list of items).

• Rather than displaying the first subheader encountered in the news item and the first paragraph encountered (which enforced a certain structure on news item content to make the viewers display the items correctly) news viewers now display the first bit of the news item, regardless of the type of elements that contains. Note that this requires some changes in the public templates (the subheader() and lead() methods have been replaced by one called ‘get_intro’).

Bugs fixed

• The ‘number of items to display’ field on news viewers used to limit the number of items displayed in the archive, which made certain items not get displayed anymore, this is not fixed.

Features

• RSS 1.0 overviews on NewsViewers and Aggregators. By adding /rss to the URL of a NewsViews, one will get the RSS 1.0 feed for this viewer or aggregator.

• Removed the RSSViewer (replaced by the RSSAggregator).

Bugs fixed

• Fixed just about all Silva 0.9.3 conversion issues.

Note: SilvaNews 0.9 is incompatible with previously released versions.