Announcements: Special Notices for Your Site

This module creates an "announcement" content type and provides both node views and block lists.

This is an adaptation of the sample module writing article from IBM.

An announcement has the following fields:

Title

Self-explanatory.

Publication date

The first date the announcement will be displayed.

Expiration date

The last date the announcement will be displayed.

Abstract

An abbreviated description of the announcement. This will be shown in the block. Note: Only the abstract will be indexed for search if you use the Search module.

Body

The full text of the announcement.

Installation

Standard module installation applies. The module does have an uninstall function.

Settings

Maximum number of block announcements

The maximum number of announcements that will show in a block.

Default duration of announcement

When creating a new announcement, the start date will default to today and the ending date will default to today plus this setting's value.

Permissions

create announcement

Allows a user to create a new announcement

edit announcement

Allows a user to edit any announcement. Note: "edit own" is by default.

Menu Entries / URIs

There is one menu entry for "Announcements." This view of the announcements shows only the abstract and dates for the announcements.

If one appends 'view' to the URI (i.e. http://www.example.com/announcements/view), you will get a full node view.

Blocks

Announcements: Recent

Shows recent, active announcements.

Announcements: In xxx vocabulary

Shows the terms for the xxx vocabulary, which has been assigned to the 'announcements' content type. There may be more than one vocabulary show, depending on your configuration. Note: if there are no vocabularies assigned, then this block will not be shown.

Styling and Themes

The module comes with a starter set of CSS entries. View the code or use Firebug to discover more styling options.

theme_announcements_compact

Formats the main, compact view.

theme_announcements

Formats the full node view.

theme_announcements_block_list

Formats an entry for the "Recent" block.

theme_announcements_dates

Formats the dates for the announcement.

theme_announcements_abstract

Formats the abstract.