On 1/10/06, Paul Bolger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you got the news sources in RSS? If so use the Feeder > > plugin/contract. (note that contract should now be moved to the feeder > > plugin since we now have that capability) > > No, the stories are just (hypothetically) Forrest internal document > format. In most sites I work on the most frequent content additions > are press releases, which can be in html, and which are then saved to > a 'news' directory. The idea would be to get Forrest to manage the > links and possibly the archiving. Archiving in this sense would > consist purely of moving the link from a 'current' list to an > 'archive' list.
I like this idea and think it's related to what I was trying to do with the blog plugin -- use metadata to drive some of forrest's pages. I haven't read this whole thread so I may in fact be *way* off of what you're talking about but I'm thinking you could do something like this: o) Add a metadata element called "expires": <meta name="expires" value="1/11/2006"/> o) Use the xpathdirectorygenerator against your news directory to see if it's "recent" or not. When I get home and finish playing around with the photogallery plugin I'll get back to that blog one to try to finish it up as a good example of how to use metadata in a more powerful way in forrest - it's certainly not there yet. --tim
