Forum OpenACS Q&A: Pulling dynamic links from modules

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1: Pulling dynamic links from modules
Posted by Bob Long on 08/18/00 03:12 PM

I'm interested in adding dynamic links to entries in various modules (calendar, news, bboard) to our home page, so users can see the most recent items without having to visit each modules' page. The best example of this being the "recent postings" from the Photo Q&A forum and Equipment classifieds on the photonet home page.

Does anyone have any insight into the code required for this?

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2: Response to Pulling dynamic links from modules (response to 1)
Posted by Caroline Meeks on 12/06/01 03:14 PM
Look in /tcl/education-portal.tcl  This contains procs that are designed to fill module contents into a portal but the same thing can be down without portals.  This was done quite a bit for the education module. However, the code ported for OpenACS is full of bugs :(.  We fixed alot of them and added a many additional procs in the ACES code which is availble on arsdigita.com.

None of its plug and play for OpenACS but should provide ideas.