You could do as you suggest - use categories and publishing rules. If you do this you will have an always up-to-date 'magazine' as new items will be added and old items will expire over time. Thus a visitor may get a different edition (group of news items) each time they visit. This might be what you want.
However, if you want to take a 'snapshot' of news items which would remain fixed then you will need to create a collection object (or type) to store the relevant editions news items. That way a visitor would see the same set of news for a particular edition each time they visited. You could create a custom 'magazine' type which might have some preamble text and then hold a collection of news items as associated objects. I am sure there are many other ways to do this. Hope this helps. Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Kolosky Sent: 07 May 2004 15:15 To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] Online Magazine Hi list -- The customer would like an "online magazine" on their site. It's a bunch of news objects that are tied together into another object. I'm new to FarCry, so I think this can be done, but I'm unsure whether I'll need to extend an object to accomplish this or not. Can I just have the customer set the categories to the same object and then use a rule to publish that one categeory? Should I extend the news object? Create a new object called Issue that contains one or more news objects? _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 ---------------------------------------------------- This E-mail scanned for viruses by Harlaxton College ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- This E-mail scanned for viruses by Harlaxton College ---------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
