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TLsf

Posted on Sep 30, 2008 (permalink)

Hello,

We are trying to come up with a way to auto-generate a newsletter with information from the News and Events modules. Ideally we would be able to specify which categories of News and Events to return, and the fields: Title, Summary, Content, Date... and get formatted HTML code in return which we can paste in the Newsletter module.

Does anyone have already finished code that extracts News and Events or has done something similar that can get us started? Any help will be much appreciated.

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SelAromDotNet Master

Posted on Sep 30, 2008 (permalink)

this is pretty straightforward with the content APIs. I don't have a completed example you could borrow but I did something similar to build an rss feed of a custom module...

basically you just need to use the api to get a collection of events/news/etc then iterate through each one and build the html.

an example of the api is here: http://www.sitefinity.com/help/developer-manual/news-api-walkthrough.html which covers the news. here's a relevant snippet:

// create new instance of NewsManager  

Telerik.News.NewsManager newsManager = new Telerik.News.NewsManager("News");  

// get all news content items  

IList listOfNewsItems = newsManager.Content.GetContent();  

if (listOfNewsItems.Count > 0)  

{  

 foreach(Telerik.Cms.Engine.IContent newsItem in listOfNewsItems)  

     Response.Write(newsItem.GetMetaData("Title") + "<br />");  

}

your code would go in place of that last line to build the html using the various MetaData items for the News item.

here's the link for events: http://www.sitefinity.com/help/developer-manual/events-api-finding-events.html

you can wrap these into a GetNewsletter method that returns the built html.

hope that this was helpful!

Georgi Georgi

Posted on Sep 30, 2008 (permalink)

Hello,
Josh beat me to the punch. Here's how to get the content items from given category though:

    
                    IList listOfNewsItems = newsManager.Content.GetContent("[CategoryName] ASC");  
        
                    if (listOfNewsItems.Count > 0)  
        
                    {  
        
                        foreach (Telerik.Cms.Engine.IContent newsItem in listOfNewsItems)  
        
                        {  
        
                            NetmediaPanel1.Text += newsItem.GetMetaData("Title") + "<br />";  
        
                            //news1.Text += newsItem.GetMetaData("Category") + "<br />";  
        
                            NetmediaPanel1.Text += newsItem.Content.ToString() + "<br /><br />";  
        
                        }  
        
                    }

Josh, we have updated your Telerik account for a helpful reply. Thanks!

Best wishes,
Georgi
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TLsf

Posted on Oct 1, 2008 (permalink)

Thank you to both of you. This was really helpful. I'll give it a go.

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