Add-on Simple Portal

[Shelley]

Is it a type of chief post feature where it stays on the top page of all pages on the portal.

 

[Andrej]

Something like a news feed?

 

[Sage Knight]

Let's have a little fun before our official release. The winner of this little contest will win a branding free version of simple portal. The contest is simple (get it) : The first person who can correctly explain the highlighted function in the following screenshot wins the SimplePortal branding free.
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It defines the page as the index page where all the featured news will come up.

 

[Jeff Fuqua]

RSS feed?

 

[lms]

The page run like a news page of a blog, with css to format this.

Salud2

 

[Dan]

It defines the page as the index page where all the featured news will come up.

The portalpage/indexpage is already the page where the items come up

 

[Dan]

RSS feed?

No, but that's a interesting idea.

Would it be useful to have an rss feed with the portal items? I could add it to our internal suggestions tracker

 

[Biker]

No, but that's a interesting idea.

Would it be useful to have an rss feed with the portal items? I could add it to our internal suggestions tracker

Perhaps incorporate it into a widget?

 

[Andrej]

Is this going to be an paid add-on?

 

[Dan]

Perhaps incorporate it into a widget?

I have also added that to our internal suggestion system. We'll discuss it with the crew.

Is this going to be an paid add-on?

Simple Portal itself will be free, the Branding Free option will probably the only thing you will have to pay for

 

[Dan]

A small hint.

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[IcEWoLF]

Promoting certain threads to the front page?

Basically the ability to promote specific threads to the front page. I like the idea.
It appears it will give you the option to promote which thread you want on top too...this is nice.

 

[erich37]

A small hint.

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this:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/turn-xf-into-pinforo.29887/page-8#post-516660

 

[Dan]

Just a small announcement.

I have noticed that people think that they will be able to link a forum to our Simple Portal. This is not the case. Posts will only appear on the Simple Portal when a person with the right permission promotes a post/thread there. It will in no way happen automatically.

We are also thinking about giving you the possibility to promote resources, gallery images, blog posts and pages to our Simple Portal.

 

[Biker]

Just a small announcement.
Posts will only appear on the Simple Portal when a person with the right permission promotes a post/thread there. It will in no way happen automatically.

And this is EXACTLY what I've been needing. Now, stop posting and get back to work!

 

[Shelley]

And this is EXACTLY what I've been needing. Now, stop posting and get back to work!

I second that or the newspaper will be getting brought out (don't ask) it's an unlikely scenario due to the excellence being showed here.

 

[Mouth]

I have noticed that people think that they will be able to link a forum to our Simple Portal. This is not the case. Posts will only appear on the Simple Portal when a person with the right permission promotes a post/thread there. It will in no way happen automatically.

Such a shame It cannot do both?
You said earlier today that the RSS feed was an interesting idea ... now I guess not!? Because it is a good idea, and why reinvent the wheel? XF already has feeder to bring RSS automatically into a node/forum, and then SimplePortal just (also) display the content of this forum/node. And if I want to promote an existing thread, we'll I can either do it manually into SimplePortal, or just move the thread into the SimplePortal linked node/forum and it's done too. Gives a whole lot of flexibility and options to the admin.

 

[Mouth]

Let's have a little fun before our official release. The winner of this little contest will win a branding free version of simple portal. The contest is simple (get it) : The first person who can correctly explain the highlighted function in the following screenshot wins the SimplePortal branding free.

Is this still open?
With this function activated, you get to - when promoting threads to the SimplePortal - allocate a sort/display order effectively decided whether this thread should appear above (or grouped with) others, regardless of the date/time of the thread (which the date/time otherwise determines the sort and display order).

 

[Dan]

Such a shame It cannot do both?

Not at this time.

You said earlier today that the RSS feed was an interesting idea ... now I guess not!? Because it is a good idea, and why reinvent the wheel? XF already has feeder to bring RSS automatically into a node/forum, and then SimplePortal just (also) display the content of this forum/node. And if I want to promote an existing thread, we'll I can either do it manually into SimplePortal, or just move the thread into the SimplePortal linked node/forum and it's done too. Gives a whole lot of flexibility and options to the admin.

Still is a great idea and will for sure be looked at in future releases. At some point, we had to have a feature freeze so that we can release it

 

[Dan]

Is this still open?
With this function activated, you get to - when promoting threads to the SimplePortal - allocate a sort/display order effectively decided whether this thread should appear above (or grouped with) others, regardless of the date/time of the thread (which the date/time otherwise determines the sort and display order).

Winner. It overrides the display order and lists portal items chronologically.