Examples of Using News Lists

How to create a list of 10 latest news articles

Create the channel sitenews.
Create the file format newsitem and activate its option Mark as new on the live server (canCreateNewsItems).
Create the file news1 anywhere in the folder hierarchy. Use newsitem as the format of the file.

Add code like this to the layout of the starting page:

<ul>
  <npsobj newslist="all" length="10">
    <li>
      <npsobj insertvalue="anchor" name="self">
        <npsobj insertvalue="var" name="title" />
      </npsobj>
    </li>
  </npsobj>
</ul>

How to create an RSS feed for politics news

Create the channel politics.
Create the file format newsitem and enable its option Mark as news on the live server (canCreateNewsItems).
Define a field description. Create the file format feed and add the description field to it. Do not activate canCreateNewsItems for feed.
Create the folder rssfeeds.
In the folder create a base layout which outputs an RSS feed (see below).
In the same folder create the file politicsfeed using the feed format and set its description to "Company policy news". Assign to it the politics channel.

Set the main content of the base layout to the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.92//EN"
    "https://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.92.dtd">
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
  <description>
    <npsobj insertvalue="var" name="description" />
  </description>
  <language>de</language>
  <title><npsobj insertvalue="var" name="title" /></title>
  <link>https://www.mysite.com/</link>
  <copyright>(c) JustRelate Group GmbH</copyright>
  <generator>CMS Fiona 6.7.0</generator>
  <ttl>60</ttl>
  <npsobj newslist="selected" name="channels" length="20">
    <item>
      <title><npsobj insertvalue="var" name="title"/></title>
      <link>https://www.mysite.de<npsobj insertvalue="var" name="visiblePath" /></link>
      <description>
        <npsobj insertvalue="var" name="description"/>
      </description>
    </item>
  </npsobj>
</channel>
</rss>

To output the RSS feed in a different version (for example 2.0) you can modify the layout file as desired.

To generate another feed for sports news using the layout file above:

Create a channel named sports.
In the rssfeeds folder create the file politicsfeed using the feed format and set the file’s description field to "Latest sports news". As channels select sports.
Now create files based on the newsitem format and set their channels field to sports. The files will be added to the Sports news feed.

Sending a Newsletter

Create a folder named newsletters.
Write a base layout that generates the contents of the newsletter by reading fields from the corresponding files, for example.
Create a file format named newsletter.
In the newsletters folder create the file politics based on the file format newsletters.
Into the main content of the politics file enter the e-mail addresses. Only one address per line.
Write a wizard that sends the exportBlob field of politics to each e-mail address in the main content of politics.