Hello everyone,

This is my first post on the DNNCreative forum. Great site Lee!

My question is possibly very basic to many of you. I suspect I cannot see the wood for the trees.

I need to create a front page for our Intranet that pulls in various child pages from their parents in 'list of links' format based on the child page title.

For instance if I have a parent pages and child pages with headings News > Current > Archived News & then Events> Current events> Archived events.

These are added to frequently during the day with new content on new child pages.

I need to display the titles of these pages on the site homepage(lets say the ten most recent items)as a title link

This principle will apply to various sections on the site so the users can see at a glance what has been published most recently.

I am sorry but I am perplexed as to how this can be achieved. I have played with the taxonomy/folksonomy feature to see if this could achieve the result but doesn't seem to achieve what I need

Ideally I need a module that can be inserted into the homepage that can be associated with a Parent page to show the child pages in a simple list of links, 10 most recent publications newest at the top.

I have been using a now defunct CMS called Envivo that works on Categories and articles within the categories but DNN doesnt seem to follow this principle.

The code I currently use in our asp intranet homepage is

<%=AL(114,16,"ID","desc",34)%>

Where the first number is the category number, the next is the number of articles to display in descending order. This can be applied to any content in the site.

Hope someone can suggest a solution. If I am missing something very obvious I will accept the slap but for the life of me I cannot see a way to do this
Stuart

Are all of these pages in a single website, or are you trying to pull data from multiple sites?

Hi Joe

All the pages will be within the same DNN Intranet.

I'd try to stay with a single installation and a single website.

Hi

I will be keeping all the content in one site and one dnn portal.

What I need to do is create a module that is capable of displaying content hyperlinks from other areas of the site in a list of simple link titles on the home page

For example:

Two tabs within the site have child pages.

News> March 11 then each child page has a news item on it for March 2011.
Other News > March 11>then each child page has other news item on it for March 2011.

I need to display a dynamic list within a section of the home page (in a module) to show each child page title as they are added so the top 10 latest items are displayed dynamically.

I could arrange the site so I archive the news each month thereby having a static area that contains news and manually archive the news according to the month published.

I have found a Child Page module that sort of does this but I need to extend it to dynamically show the titles of each news child tab rather than display a tree view.

The principle does not just apply to news or other news it is required for many other areas of the site.

Like I say it may be that there is something I have missed here as I would of thought it would be a highly desirable feature that I am amazed if it doesnt already exist, I cannot find a module like this anywahere.

I hope this makes sense now.

Stuart

You might want to consider an article management module. I like Ventrian News Articles. It allows you to set up a collection of articles and then display them in a number of different ways. There are other, similar modules.

Ok thanks I will take a look

Just to close this one eventually I found the perfect solution. The latest ver 3 did the trick

http://www.snowcovered.com/snowcove...geID=19720