We are pleased to announce the release of Magic News, the next step in our commitement to multi lingual content in DotNetNuke portals.

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Magic News is...

...Easy to use

Entering new announcements can be as easy as entering a title and an announcement body. if you need more options, simply extend the Advanced options node and add a link to your announcement, enter a brief summary or edit the publishdate to hide the announcement until the publishdate is reached.


... the most flexible announcement module available

Every aspect of the module is displayed through a template system that offers a variety of static and dynamic localized token. Customize the look per tabmodule instance and give your announcements a distinctive look whereever you use it in your portal

Place on instance one a page in your portal and place another one on the frontpage of your portal to render the same announcements in a completely different layout.


...a true multi-language module

Select per announcement the locale of your content to only display announcements to your visitors in their language. The module also sends only e-mail messages in the language of the recipient (if subscriptions are enabled)

Every aspect of the module is fully localized!


...a great way to keep your visitors informed

If subscriptions are enabled, visitors can subscribe to your announcements. No matter if their registered users in your portal or regular visitors. You can even turn off subscriptions for anonymous visitors or turn the whole subscription system off. E-mail messages are completely localized and offer a simple one-click process to unsubscribe.

E-Mail notifications are controlled by the DotNetNuke scheduler and check per default every hour if new announcements are due to notification.

Recipients have the possibility to unsubscribe by using the One-Click Unsubscribe mechanism from within every notification message!

• Attributes per Announcement: title. body, summary (optional), link (optional), publishdate (optional) 
• optional attributes are hidden by default to allow for a quick and easy add announcement process
• After adding announcements editor can select to directly add the next item
• Sending notifications can be surpressed for particular announcements
• scheduler based notifications for new announcements
• subscription modell for anonymous and registered visitors, subscriptions for anonymous visitors can be tuned off
• profile data of registered users is always pulled dynamically from the users profile
• simple one-click unsubscribe mechanism
• mechanism to deny subscriptions for portal e-mail addresses. If one subscribes using an e-mail address that is already in use in another subscription or by another portal account, the request is denied
• possibility to turn off subscriptiosn completely
• e-mail content fully localized
• module content fully localized
• announcements displayed through flexible template system, various localized static [TOKEN] help customizing how items are rendered
• Included: Archive module to navigate through expired announcements