Silva News Network 2.6 beta released

6 december 2006 – Infrae has just released Silva News Network 2.6 beta. This is the first Silva 2.x compatible release of SNN. While primarily a compatibility release, SNN 2.6 does include a few new features like a category filtering asset, more configuration options for InlineNewsViewers, and support for the “Atom” syndication format.  It includes the following features and bug fixes:

Features

First Silva 2.x compatible release

SilvaNewsCategoryFilter can be used to limit the category lists in Filters and the properties tool in the NewsItem editor

Refactoring of Viewer / Filter rendering code, which means faster page loads

Improved InlineNewsViewer which provides more control over how it displays within documents.

More developer friendly:

• NewsItem metadata are now in the catalog
• Zope 3 interfaces for all content types

Improved syndication support:

• RSS and Atom feeds are provided for News and Agenda Viewers

Most important bugfixes

• Fix for broken rss feeds
• AgendaFilters correctly find and display AgendaItems
• All available NewsViewers are now showing in the InlineNewsViewer
• NewsItem versions can now be compared via the status tab
  

For a full list of changes, see HISTORY.txt in the package.

What is it?

Silva News Network provides a News & Events application for Silva that runs out-of-the-box. It offers the capability to deploy multiple News Sources within an organization, say, in different departments, where some or all sources can be aggregated into a central news page. The different departments can have their own news page too. By adjusting SNN Filters, editors can choose what news sources, target audiences, and subjects their aggregator collects, and have granular control of display down to an article level.

SNN Viewer components can be used ‘as is’ for a news page, or be included inline into a document. Silva templates can display news feeds in a related column. Silva News Network has RSS/Atom extensions; a News Viewer can publish its contents in RSS or Atom format. There is also an RSS Aggregator that can be used to pick up and display news from external RSS and Atom feeds.

Collaboration

Thanks to Andrew Altepeter of Bethel University in St. Paul, USA, and Marc Petitmermet of ETH Zürich, for indefatigable flagging and fixing of issues.  Also thanks to Jon Bowlas at University College London for initial development of the SilvaNewsCategoryFilter.

Download

Packages can be downloaded from:
https://infrae.com/download/SilvaNews

Download the 2.6b release directly from: https://infrae.com/download/SilvaNews/2.6b3/SilvaNewsNetwork-2.6b3.tar.gz

Contact

FMI contact Eric Casteleijn, eric at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051.