I've started to change the news package to use form builder and list builder but didn't finish (there's a lot to do in that package, more than I first thought).
I may finish to include it in .LRN 2.4.1. I won't have enough time for this one I'm afraid.
Anybody else interested that could do it? Would be appreciated :)
Sorry but I can help you in that.
We are very busy preparing the dotLearn instance for the next
academic year.
We are planning to put several terms in the same DB instance.
Until that year, we put every academic instance in separate DBs and urls. With both terms in the same instance, we need add some logic to the portlets to show only the selected term.