collective.newsticker 1.0rc1

News ticker inspired by the one on the BBC News website.

Table of Contents

• Overview

• Features

• Use

• Screenshots

• Installation

• Contributors

• Changelog

Overview

News ticker inspired by the one on the BBC News website.

Features

• jQuery-based, lightweight and easy to use news ticker.

• Configurable via configlet.

• Users have full control on what items to display by using collections.

Use

• Open ‘News Ticker Settings’ configlet on Plone’s ‘Site Setup’.

• Select the collection containing the items you want to display.

That’s it! You will see the items included in the collection on a site-wide news ticker.

You can click on any item to open it.

Screenshots

The configlet.

The news ticker in action.

Installation

To enable this product in a buildout-based installation:

1. Edit your buildout.cfg and add collective.newsticker to the list of eggs to install

   [buildout]
   ...
   eggs =
       collective.newsticker

2. You may need to extend a five.grok known good set (KGS) to make sure that you get the right versions of the packages that make up five.grok

   [buildout]
   ...
   extends =
       http://good-py.appspot.com/release/five.grok/1.2.0-1

3. You may also need to pin zope.schema to version 3.8.0 or higher

   [versions]
   ...
   zope.schema = 3.8.0

After updating the configuration you need to run ‘’bin/buildout’’, which will take care of updating your system.

Go to the ‘Site Setup’ page in a Plone site and click on the ‘Add-ons’ link.

Check the box next to ‘’collective.newsticker’’ and click the ‘Activate’ button.

Note: You may have to empty your browser cache and save your resource registries in order to see the effects of the product installation.

Contributors

• Héctor Velarde ([e-mail])

• Danilo G. Botelho ([e-mail])

• Thiago Tamosauskas ([e-mail])

• Joaquín Rosales ([e-mail])

• Rhodri George - jQuery News Ticker

Development sponsored by Open Multimedia.

collective.newsticker is an implementation of the jQuery News Ticker Plugin for Plone.

Changelog

1.0rc1 (2012-04-24)

• Initial release.