Please tell us any features you would like to see in the AnnounceIT module.

The biggest issue:

 

Currently it only looks ok on a blue-skinned website!!! ie. the ability to specifiy the style characteristics of the Category List - much the same as you currently can for an announcement.

 

1. Already available - Date order.

2. Available in next release

3. This would be quite easy to do, we will think about this feature in the next update.

4. We can look at this, but the search results are done via DNN. We will have to try to get cleaver with their built in search system.

5. Looking at the permissing in the next release.

 

Next release will be this week, but not include the features we ar taling about above. We have completed development of the next update. Big work on look and feel.

We wll look at what we can do to incoude this feature in the future.

My wish list...

 

1) Is there a list of [TOKENS] that we can use to customize the templates?
2) Display the author (via token?)
3) Display the published date (via token>)  << Is this [ARTICLEFROM]?
1) Ability to feature a "hot" and "popular" announcement to be always listed at the top of its categorical listing (checkbox?).
2) Show the announcement without the category listing.  Some of us may use this module as a news module and will want to insert screenshots, etc. and will want to maximize the screen real estate.  True that this can be accomplished by hiding the categories but then how would the visitor know what announcement to select?
3) Keep the icon in the category menu at its original size instead of resizing it to fit.
4) While in the admin section, have a button to return to the root module versus having to click "back" on each sub admin menu.
5) Ability to better view the sub categories in the category listing.  Their present view is simply an extra space to "push" it towards the right.  So maybe the sub-categories can be more prominently visible?
6) Ability to "split" up an announcement into multiple pages.

 

Now when I say that some of us may use this as an articles/news module versus a simple announcement module, I'd like to add that this module is by far better than most article modules!!  So with a few more adjustments, you can probably change it from AnnounceIt to NewsIt.

 

Ouch!  I am giving my registered users editing access to the module so they can add/edit announcements.  Then I discover that they can also configure the entire module itself and change the way it looks!  I would suggest limiting the module's configuration to administrators only.

 

Also, regarding your point of "tagging items to top can be done now with sort feature".  The registered user will want to do this themselves while editing an article and should have to go into a separate screen.  A competitor's article's module has a checkbox within their edit screen to easily allow this feature.

Hi Folks,

 

The ability to allow the Archived annoucements to be viewed by the public.

 

I have clients who want to show current announcements only but allow visitors to view out of date items, especially for press releases.

 

Many Thanks

 

Tony

Hello,

 

I've a suggestion :

 

To have a link so users can send me a message about the announce. The message can be send to me by mail.

 

Recipients, link's text and some other things could be customized by the settings of the module.

 

Is this possible ? It's very important for me. You can contact me if you want.

 

Thanks