collective / collective.newsticker

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

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.

collective.newsticker's Issues

need a new screen shot (of Plone 5)

...in README.rst

upgrade jQuery News Ticker

The latest version of jQuery News Ticker is v1.8, released on 13/11//2011.

Setting show controls breaks the ticker in Plone 5

do not show controls:

show controls:

configuration registry not deleted after uninstall

Uninstall profile step for Registry is not running when uninstalling package.

Follow viewets pattern

seems the viewlet is not following the viewlet pattern as defined in the documentation.

• don't declare the template on ZCML
• review enabled/disabled
• review tests

<browser:viewlet
    name="collective.newsticker"
    for="*"
    manager="plone.app.layout.viewlets.interfaces.IAboveContent"
    class="collective.newsticker.browser.NewsTickerViewlet"
    template="newsticker_viewlet.pt"
    permission="zope2.View"
    layer="collective.newsticker.interfaces.INewsTickerLayer"
    />

TypeError on Plone 5

while trying to use this package under Plone 5.1 I get the following error:

TypeError: $(...).get(...) is undefined

Instance raises Conflicting configuration actions

• Plone 4.3.11
• collective.lazysizes 2.0.5rc1
• collective.newsticker 2.1b1

Instance don't start and raise the following error:

2017-03-21 17:48:29 INFO ZEO.ClientStorage zeostorage Disconnected from storage: "('localhost', 8100)"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/parts/instance1/bin/interpreter", line 384, in <module>
    exec(compile(__file__f.read(), __file__, "exec"))
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/Zope2-2.13.24-py2.7.egg/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 76, in <module>
    run()
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/Zope2-2.13.24-py2.7.egg/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 22, in run
    starter.prepare()
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/Zope2-2.13.24-py2.7.egg/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 92, in prepare
    self.startZope()
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/Zope2-2.13.24-py2.7.egg/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 268, in startZope
    Zope2.startup()
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/Zope2-2.13.24-py2.7.egg/Zope2/__init__.py", line 47, in startup
    _startup()
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/Zope2-2.13.24-py2.7.egg/Zope2/App/startup.py", line 118, in startup
    load_zcml()
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/Zope2-2.13.24-py2.7.egg/Zope2/App/startup.py", line 52, in load_zcml
    load_site()
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/Zope2-2.13.24-py2.7.egg/Zope2/App/zcml.py", line 46, in load_site
    _context = xmlconfig.file(site_zcml)
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/zope.configuration-3.7.4-py2.7.egg/zope/configuration/xmlconfig.py", line 651, in file
    context.execute_actions()
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/zope.configuration-3.7.4-py2.7.egg/zope/configuration/config.py", line 620, in execute_actions
    for action in resolveConflicts(self.actions):
  File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/zope.configuration-3.7.4-py2.7.egg/zope/configuration/config.py", line 1527, in resolveConflicts
    raise ConfigurationConflictError(conflicts)
zope.configuration.config.ConfigurationConflictError: Conflicting configuration actions
  For: ('upgradeDepends', '1', '2', None, "[u'plone.app.registry']", 0)
    File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/collective.lazysizes-2.0.5rc1-py2.7.egg/collective/lazysizes/upgrades/v2/configure.zcml", line 18.4-23.10
          <genericsetup:upgradeDepends
              title="Add new field to configlet"
              description="Reload registration of configlet registry to add new field."
              import_steps="plone.app.registry"
              run_deps="false"
              />
    File "/opt/plone/buildout/eggs/collective.newsticker-2.1b1-py2.7.egg/collective/newsticker/upgrades/v2/configure.zcml", line 12.4-17.10
          <genericsetup:upgradeDepends
              title="Add 'enabled' field to configlet"
              description="Reload registration of configlet registry to add new field."
              import_steps="plone.app.registry"
              run_deps="false"
              />

Setting configuration to show controls breaks the ticker in Plone 5.1

After setting show controls to True the following error is shown in the console:

TypeError: $(...).live is not a function

the .live() function was deprecated in jQuery 1.7 and removed from jQuery 1.9; we need to fix that.

news ticker does not appear on add-on activation

... you have to visit @@newsticker-settings and press Save button before the news ticker actually appears.

2.1b1 and Plone 5.0.7

Allow limitting collection results

It'd be nice to limit the collection's amount of results, just as it is possible with Collection portlets. This avoids creating dedicated collections to serve the newsticker.

Allow manual selection of one item

JS error

With Plone 5.0.4 after activating the add-on I had a JS error. To allow the site and news ticker to function correctly I had to enable JS dev mode in the configuration registry.

Remove dependency on five.grok