Topic: Docs / News Section

[billie.skeggs]

Just a quick question..

im trying to use SP to create a simple website that works with the forum data.

I have my portal news from a set forum and displays on the home page..

is there a way i can have a link in the main nav bar that displayes the news posts only.. as it would in the block... without actually going to the forums... something like a blog perhaps..

also the SP docs section.. is this created using SP tools or is it a seperate mod?? as i would like to do something similar..

Many thanks.. Great portal btw. saved me trying to teach a non techy to use joomla.. and just do it all with SMF

[AngelinaBelle]

I am not sure what you mean by:

a link in the main nav bar that displayes the news posts only.. as it would in the block... without actually going to the forums... something like a blog perhaps

I'm guessing you don't actually want to display the posts in the main nav bar.
 
I'm guessing you want
1) A SimplePortal page that displays a forum news block containing your blog postings
2) A link to the blog page from your main nav bar.
 
For 1), just create a new page, and a board news block that ONLY shows itself on that single page.
For 2), you probably want to search the mods site for "buttons" or "nav bar".  There are a couple of mods that help you to add new buttons, including one developed by a SimplePortal user (johncccccc, though he is now spelling it upside-down at simplemachines.org)
 

 
 
SimplePortal docs is a special-purpose customization, and has not been released as a mod. It relies on some fairly standard SMF stuff, with a bit of specialty code to keep track of which topics belong to which part of the documentation. I haven't actually seen any of the code, so I can't tell you any more about it.

[billie.skeggs]

Cheers for the prompt reply..

sorry for the confusion. trying to explain something without making sence.

on the main portal page you have a news feed block in the top section... that pulls its feeds from the chosen forum in the settings...

what i want is to add a nav button (i know how to do this) that just gives me that news block and nothing else.. basically a list of all the news items...

as for the doc section.. thanks for the info.. i guessed it would be a closed source project for SP..

[AngelinaBelle]

If you want to see a list of just the Subjects of the recent topics from a board, you could use the RECENT TOPICS block, and limit it to just the board you are interested in.