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6/26/2008 1:15 PM
 

I thought I'd have a go at creating a What's New style report for my site. Initially it seemed logical to extract data from SearchItem, but to be honest the quality of data in there is variable. So I decided I'd create a View for each module I wanted to extract data for, combine these together then output through the HTMl Template Visualiser. It seems to have come out quite well. Of course this is quite complex, and could be done otherways I'm sure (and I expect someone will suggest them), but it works.

It includes data from Events (min version 4.0.1), Forums, Ventrian SimpleGallery and Ventrian NewsArticles.

Rather than post loads of stuff here, here is a link to my blog on the subject.

Hopefully it will be of use to someone...

Cheers
Roger


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6/27/2008 3:08 PM
 

Well, I thought I'd tidy it up from being lots of views, and created a stored procedure. This now includes - Announcements, Events, Forums, NewsArticles, SimpleGallery and Wiki.

Cheers
Roger


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6/27/2008 3:11 PM
 

Hi Roger,

Thanks for sharing, I am pretty sure I can use some of them (if not all)!!!

 


Regards,
Marc

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8/7/2008 10:49 AM
 

Thanks Roger,

This has definatly given me a better way to do the whats new. I have wrote up the section for capturing blog info as well I figured I would post it here so if anyone wanted to add this.  Along with the code below being added to the create procedure you would also need to add @BlogRows = X, to the Report Query

 INSERT
        INTO    #WhatsNew
                (
                        Title        ,
                        Description  ,
                        PubDate      ,
                        Link         ,
                        Userid       ,
                        ModuleID     ,
                        LinkType     ,
                        ImageURL     ,
                        ImageLinkType,
                        ImageHeight  ,
                        ImageWidth
                )
        SELECT  top (@BlogRows) dbo.blog_entries.title,
                dbo.udf_HTMLDecode(dbo.blog_entries.description) AS Description,
                dbo.blog_entries.AddedDate AS PubDate,
                dbo.blog_entries.PermaLink AS Link,
                dbo.blog_blogs.userid ,
                '360'  AS ModuleID ,
                'http' AS linktype ,
                NULL   AS ImageURL ,
                'None' AS ImageLinkType ,
                ''     AS ImageHeight ,
                ''     AS ImageWidth
        FROM    blog_entries
                INNER JOIN dbo.blog_blogs
                ON      dbo.blog_blogs.blogid =dbo.blog_entries.Blogid
        WHERE   [dbo].[blog_blogs].[Public] <> 0
        ORDER BY pubdate DESC

 
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