From Sage on 5/19/16
Right now, the news on the homepage is just static text that is hardcoded. We need to make this dynamic, so that admins can add news entries, and the most recent ones show up on the home page, along with a link to the full listing. Essentially, what we're looking for here is typical blog functionality.
From Allan on 7/20/16
I am working on this task cause I thought I can get this done quickly, but now I am a bit confused. Initially I thought this is about the 3 blocks of content (vis data, cm, create llb) on the homepage. But then I see the mentioning of blog functionality.
Are you referring to the rotator on the homepage? I believed I already setup a dynamic rotator for homepage and other resource landing page through the use of bean block. so the dynamic aspect of the task is already done. I'll need more info on the news entry because I don't recall we ever set one up.
From Sage on 7/21/16
It appears the "News" block was removed from the current version of the homepage. At one point we had a sidebar box to the right of the featured resources list, but the text in the box was hard-coded so it was not easy to update.
The thought here was to allow an admin to create blog-like posts (i.e. dated), and the most recent 3 (or so) would appear in the updates box. This was something I think Joe had mockups on, or was going to work with Harmon to flesh out.
Right now, because the updates box can be disabled, the homepage is okay. This would be a nice functionality to have (that is, a recent news section with a widget on the homepage), but I would deem this lower priority.
And yes, I believe you did make the homepage carousel customizable, along with those for the various "about" pages, but it's been a while since I tested it. I can't remember if we asked Harmon to create new slides for the homepage carousel, or just the various tool about pages, but I think that was the goal.
From Sage on 5/19/16 Right now, the news on the homepage is just static text that is hardcoded. We need to make this dynamic, so that admins can add news entries, and the most recent ones show up on the home page, along with a link to the full listing. Essentially, what we're looking for here is typical blog functionality.
From Allan on 7/20/16 I am working on this task cause I thought I can get this done quickly, but now I am a bit confused. Initially I thought this is about the 3 blocks of content (vis data, cm, create llb) on the homepage. But then I see the mentioning of blog functionality.
Are you referring to the rotator on the homepage? I believed I already setup a dynamic rotator for homepage and other resource landing page through the use of bean block. so the dynamic aspect of the task is already done. I'll need more info on the news entry because I don't recall we ever set one up.
From Sage on 7/21/16 It appears the "News" block was removed from the current version of the homepage. At one point we had a sidebar box to the right of the featured resources list, but the text in the box was hard-coded so it was not easy to update.
Actually, now that I think of it, I think I deleted the placeholder text from the following file, and because of the way your template works, it just omits the box (which was nice). https://github.com/ooiepe/epe_theme/blob/master/templates/content/homepage/updates.html
The thought here was to allow an admin to create blog-like posts (i.e. dated), and the most recent 3 (or so) would appear in the updates box. This was something I think Joe had mockups on, or was going to work with Harmon to flesh out.
Right now, because the updates box can be disabled, the homepage is okay. This would be a nice functionality to have (that is, a recent news section with a widget on the homepage), but I would deem this lower priority.
And yes, I believe you did make the homepage carousel customizable, along with those for the various "about" pages, but it's been a while since I tested it. I can't remember if we asked Harmon to create new slides for the homepage carousel, or just the various tool about pages, but I think that was the goal.