I don't know exactly how to ask my question, I'm quite new to DNN and still figuring my way around DNN.

What I want to do is:

1. Have an announcements module on the home page, with the usual links to pages with news items.

2. Have the news pages automatically be connected to a "News" menu item, but I don't understand if this means I have to create a "News" page, or if I can just have "News" be a menu item only and have the news pages be in the dropdown list of items from the "News" menu item.

How do I do this??

I am also looking at the 'Articles Module' from Efficeon Consulting, I also like the idea of the .Janet and Orizonti news modules, but for now I am trying to work with the default modules or with free modules before asking my agency to pay for new shareware modules.

Thank you, Tom

You can create a new page called "News", and in the page settings | Advanced Settings | Appearance

check "disabled":

If the page is disabled it is not available to users of the site. You can use this option to suppress content that you might wish to show at a later time.

Then create daughter pages (pages who's "parent" is your previously created "News" page)
On the menu, it  should  show <edit> the top level "News" page AND </edit> your daughter pages, but not allow navigation to the actual "News" page.

's how I do it.

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YES.
Sorry, I kinda left that important detail out   

There is at least one caveat: it depends on your skin/menu system...

If you are using the ubiquitous SolPart menu- this technique should work.
If you are using the HouseMenu- it will depend on how it is configured.

 

disclaimer: this is one way to achieve what you are asking- there may be other (more elegant?) ways about it, of which I am unaware.

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