EXT: Newsticker¶

Table of Contents¶

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Introduction 1

What does it do? 1

Screenshots 1

Users manual 3

FAQ 3

Adminstration 3

Configuration 4

Reference 4

Known problems 5

To-Do list 5

Changelog 5

Introduction¶

Users manual¶

After installing the extension you will get one extra content elemnt type: newsticker. During the installation it will be added one extra field into tt_content table: field with name tx_ilisnewsticker_ticker_mode. The content of this field you can define choosing any of 3 accessable items in select list with a title „Choose newsticker layout“. The difference between them is only in different visualisation effects of your newsticker content element. The first type is also possible to get as a textarea form element. That has to be additionally configured with TypoScript directives. Default it is an input field.

Source data for newsticker will be taken by default from „short“ field of table tt_news. If you choose no Starttingpoint pages it will look tt_news records with the same PID as current newsticker content element has. If you wish to get record from another storage you have to choose an apropriate Starttingpoint or several of them.

Adminstration¶

• The extension is not difficult to configure. What has to be noticed by administrators: the field tx_ilisnewsticker_ticker_mode added to tt_content table is an Exclude-field, that means that user or group has to get some permissions to edit it.
• There is no Page/User TSconfig which are necessary for this extension.
• Most likely you will have to configure the visualisation of your newsticker, I mean that part of it which makes a frame for your newsticker: correspondent styles of input field or textarea form elements as border style, border color, background color, text color, font properties etc. All possible TypoScript directives are shown on Screenshot 1. The also will be described in Reference chapter.

Configuration¶

style = STYLE=“font: normal 11px Arail,sans-serif; width: 90%; background-color: transparent; border: #A0BA9D solid 1px;“

style = CLASS=“theNameOdClass“

style = STYLE=“font: normal 11px Arail,sans-serif;  background-color: transparent; border: #A0BA9D solid 1px;“

style = CLASS=“theNameOdClass“

newsticker {
        NewsCategorie = 6
        InputFieldStyle = STYLE="font: normal 11px Arial,sans-serif; width:90%; background-color: transparent; border-style: none"
        TextareaStyle = STYLE="font: normal 11px Arial,sans-serif; background-color: #F0FCF0; border: #A0BA9D solid 1px;"
}

plugin.tx_ilisnewsticker_pi1 {

        table = tt_news
        field = short
        style = {$newsticker.InputFieldStyle}

        textarea = 1
        textarea.style = {$newsticker.TextareaStyle}
        textarea.cols = 60
        textarea.rows = 3

        cat = {$newsticker.NewsCategorie}
}

Known problems¶

Among common problems can be named

• No opportunity to configure JavaScript parameters of newsticker.

• may be limited number of possible newstickers, which don't answer your needs

  If you find some bugs please inform me in order I could correct them. Actually I am not responsible for JavaScript functions, I did not write them. They are simply found on the Internet in free libraries with JavaScript stuff.

To-Do list¶

• Translation of labels to other languages. I can provide German and Russian. If some of you can help with translation to other languages they are welcome.
• Adding the opportunity to configure in easy way JavaScript parameters for newsticker.

Changelog¶

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