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• Meister Intermediate

  Posted on Dec 14, 2009 (permalink)

  This may be possible already but not sure, so if it is would appreciate a quick suggestion on how to implement
  
  We have a client who wants to have greater control over the news section, and in particular they want to be able to specify which news items to show
  e.g. they may drag 2 news controls on the page
  the first control is set to a certain category but only shows items 1-5
  the second control is exactly the same but shows items 6-100 (or all remaining news in category)
  
  its would be good to have a bit of positioning control over these 2 news controls
  Ideally we'd like them to display differently (e.g. position/size of thumbnail)
  However, this may be possible to do with CSS and specificity
  
  Think of the first 5 news items as featured news, and the rest are ones that are a bit older.
  
  
  
  

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Dec 14, 2009 (permalink)

  Hello Quade,

  You need two controls.

  To show the latest 6 items you can use the built in implementation
  
  1. Set SortExpression of NewsView control to  Publication_Date DESC
  
  2. Under NewsSettings set Limit the number of items for the entire list to 6
  
  For the second control that will show items from 6 - 100 you need to create a custom control that gets the content items using GetContent method.
  
  

  IList sortedItems = manager.GetContent(6, 100, "Publication_Date DESC");

  
  The control should inherit from NewsView and you should override  the following method.
  
  

  protected override System.Collections.IList CreateDataSource(int startIndex, int itemsPerPage)

     {

         return base.CreateDataSource(startIndex, itemsPerPage);

     }

  
  
  All the best,
  Ivan Dimitrov
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• Meister Intermediate

  Posted on Dec 17, 2009 (permalink)

  Thanks Ivan
  
  For the 2nd control, will that have all the features of the current news view control or will it just be a basic version?
  
  

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Dec 17, 2009 (permalink)

  Hello Quade,

  If you inherits from NewsView as suggested the custom control will have all features plus the custom implementation.

  
  Kind regards,
  Ivan Dimitrov
  the Telerik team

  
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