What's New on home page

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cafe Posted: Tue, Apr 22 2008 6:14 AM

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 The 'What's New' feature on CS2007 worked well because it showed the title in large font and users could quickly see recent additions and uploads. For a corporate site which has more emphasis on document sharing and less on forums and posts etc, this is more accessible than the 'activity tracker' in CS2008 which, whilst perhaps showing more info, is harder to quickly digest. I appreciate that the CS2008 approach has it's own strengths and I'm sure good reasons behind it.

However  - Is it possible to modify / change this in CS08, to adopt the CS07 approach to 'what's new' on the home page ? Secondly is it possible to customise this to not show, say, forum posts.

Thanks

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Ben Tiedt replied on Tue, Apr 22 2008 7:54 AM

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You can edit the Common/home.aspx page in any of the themes to modify the content of the home page.

The following configuration of the <CSControl:IndexPostList /> control will return the 10 latest posts from the blogs and media gallery applications:

<CSControl:IndexPostList runat="server">
 <QueryOverrides PageSize="10" PageIndex="0" CacheMinutes="5" ApplicationTypes="Weblog,MediaGallery" SortBy="DateDescending" />
</CSControl:IndexPostList>

You can further customize the way this data is rendered by customizing the control's rendering templates.

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cafe replied on Tue, Apr 22 2008 8:10 AM

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 Ben - thanks for that - much appreciated.

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jelpesao replied on Wed, Apr 23 2008 11:58 PM

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Where in the home.aspx page would we insert this code?  I had the last 5 blogs on my home page before and trying to get the same on CS2008.

Also is there anyway to show who is online on the home page as well?

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Ben Tiedt replied on Thu, Apr 24 2008 8:57 AM

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jelpesao:

Where in the home.aspx page would we insert this code?

If you want to share a single "home" view with all of your users, I'd suggest clearing the contents of each of the <asp:Content>...</asp:Content> controls and starting from scratch -- the home.aspx page in CS2008 will look a little more complicated than most because it renders different content for different users.

If you do clear the contents, you'll also want to remove the <script runat="server">..</script> from the top of the home.aspx page.

jelpesao:

Also is there anyway to show who is online on the home page as well?

Yes.  This can be done using the <CSControl:UserOnlineList />