Hi Everyone,



The latest version of the DNN NewsFeeds module has been released to the project beta testers.  Below is a list of the changes.  



Fixed bugs:

- 4314 - Channels > Search. Redirected to the initial page if "Enter" has been pressed

- 4298 - Module crashes on adding the attached rss file

- 4312 - Add stylesheet. Critical error occurs if there are some errors in *.xsl document

- 4609 - Feeds are displayed incorrectly if stylesheet's URL is incorrect...

A member of our beta tester team for the News module brought up a very good point about testing the newest version of the module against alternate stylesheets.  We do not currently have a good set of custom stylesheets that are being used in the real world by people, so I would like to ask anyone interested to please send me their custom stylesheets.  This will provide us a good set to test against, as well as help to guarantee those that are nice enough to send us their examples don't break upon upgrade :). 

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The latest version of the DNN News Feeds module (v03.03.08) has been released to all beta testers.  Below is a list of all the bug fixes and enhancements since my last blog entry:

v03.03.08Fixed bugs:-3877 - Custom News Feed Style Sheet ignored-3878 - Deleting last feed from page stays on empty paginated page-2219 - Username and Password lost on update-3880 - Updating Channel causes instances of NewsFeeds that use channel to loose settingsNew features:-3766 - Channel Edit - Portal type should default to type selected in Portal List-1066 - IPortable Support

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The latest release of the DNN News Module version 03.03.03 (Beta) has been released to all of the News beta testers.  Here is a list of the fixes in this latest update:

 

17 Category Edit. Publishing format drop downs should go in the following order: RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, RSS 0.91, RSS 0.9, Atom.

18 DNN3.1.1 Error occurs when trying to add a feed, category or channel

19 Edit Newsfeed. After addition of the url as a source there is a page: "Server Error in 'DNN' Application. Runtime error."...

The beta for the new version of the DNN News Feeds module has been released to all those that have contacted me expressing interest in being a beta tester.  This version of the module has the following changes:

 

Feed Viewing

Ability to select sort by field (date or title) and sort order (ascending or descending). Ability to select maximum number of articles to display. Ability to select how often to refresh a feed. Ability to have articles popup in a new window. Ability to select...

The DNN News Project has taken a different and better direction than originally planned.  The original plan for this module was to release a basic upgrade as described in my last post.  During the process of testing that upgrade, we determined that the module didn’t provide the best solution without some of the additional functionality that we planned on releasing in future versions.  For example, when multiple feeds are combined into one display the advanced conversion, templating, and caching of multiple feeds...

I just wanted to provide an update to all those interested in the DNN News project.  We are planning on completing development on an initial release toward the end of this month to the beginning of next month.  I have began entering some of the proposed requirements and roadmap into Gemini (support.dotnetnuke.com).  I still have much to enter, so stay tuned.  I plan this to be an alpha release, and not distributed to the general public.  Those interested helping with the QA testing of this module should email...

Hello everyone. I just wanted to introduce myself in this first Blog entry and say that I am very excited to begin contributing to DNN as the new News Module Team Lead. We are in the planning phases right now, but here is a sneak peak at some of the high level ideas we are talking about adding in the next phase of this project.

I am putting out a new call for developers for the News project. Anyone interested in helping out should email me at jmcwilliam@flatburger.com. Any information you could provide about yourself would be very helpful. Specifically, noting things like your experience, how much time you can contribute to the project, and what you would like to do to help would be useful. I am attempting to structure the project into several small pieces that can be developed separately. As a result of this, I hope to allow people to help without having to commit to a large amount of time. Developers are not the only people we need. Anyone interested in helping with any of the following should please contact me.