[geeklog-users] topics, blocks and newsfeeds

[Vincent Furia]

I think this is what you're asking, let me know if I'm way off:

You're created a topic and you would like multiple news feeds to appear in
blocks when users go to that topic?  This is possible, and in fact pretty
easy to do.

Create the topic (as you already have).  Create the portal blocks with
Topic set to your new topic, type = portal and enabled checked.  Fill out
the other options as desired and fill in the portal block information.

Make sure you have at least one story in the topic you created (otherwise
you will not be able to see the topic page).  Go to the topic page.
You'll probably have to refresh the page once before the newsfeeds show up
because of how geeklog processes portal blocks.

You should see all the portal blocks you made after the load of the topic
page.

I hope this helps,
Vinny

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, scroff wrote:

> 
>        Ok, here's what I'm trying to do. I made a new topic, "News
> Feeds". Then I made a new portal block 'In These Times' (which is a
> newsfeed), then in the 'Topic' dropdown menu in the block editor chose
> "News Feeds", thinking it would show up when people clicked 'Newsfeeds'
> in the 'Sections' block. It didn't show up anywhere. Is it that I can't
> put a block in a block like that? The newsfeed works when it's in it's
> own block, but I kinda wanted to have more than one newsfeed under the
> topic Newsfeeds. 
>       Thanks for your feedback and help.
>       George
>       learning slow and not ready for primetime site www.markunas.org 
>