collective.newsticker 2.1b1

A horizontal, text-based display dedicated to presenting headlines on a site.

News Ticker

Table of Contents

• News Ticker

  • Life, the Universe, and Everything

    • Features

  • Mostly Harmless

  • Don’t Panic

    • Installation

    • Usage

    • Screenshots

  • Contributors

  • Changelog

    • 2.1b1 (2017-03-21)

    • 2.0b1 (2017-03-06)

    • 1.0rc1 (2012-04-24)

Life, the Universe, and Everything

A horizontal, text-based display dedicated to presenting headlines on a site.

Features

• jQuery-based, lightweight and easy to use

• Configurable via configlet

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

Mostly Harmless

Got an idea? Found a bug? Let us know by opening a support ticket.

Don’t Panic

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

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 ‘’News Ticker’’ and click the ‘Activate’ button.

Usage

• Open ‘News Ticker’ 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.

Contributors

• Héctor Velarde

• Danilo G. Botelho

• Thiago Tamosauskas

• Joaquín Rosales

• Gustavo Lepri

• Rhodri George (jQuery News Ticker)

• INCORS (icon)

Development sponsored by Open Multimedia.

Changelog

2.1b1 (2017-03-21)

• Remove needless default factory for titleText field. [hvelarde]

• Add new field to configlet to control whether or not the ticker will be shown. [hvelarde]

2.0b1 (2017-03-06)

Warning

This version is not compatible with previous ones. If you want to upgrade, uninstall the previous version before installing this one.

• Make package compatible with Plone 5. [rodfersou, agnogueira]

• Add support to control animation type. [hvelarde]

• Register CSS on resource registry. [hvelarde]

• Update Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish translations. [hvelarde]

• Make control panel configlet accesible to Site Administrator role. [hvelarde]

• Allow limiting collection results (closes #6). [hvelarde]

• Remove dependency on five.grok. [hvelarde]

• Drop support for Python 2.6 and Plone 4.1; Remove dependency on unittest2. [hvelarde]

• Miscelaneous fixes. [lepri]

1.0rc1 (2012-04-24)

• Initial release.