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Development => Support => Topic started by: londonhogfan on December 13, 2006, 10:00:19 PM

Title: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: londonhogfan on December 13, 2006, 10:00:19 PM
This has worked in the past, but since the upgrade to 9.7 the news posts on the front page no longer show for guests.

In the front page settings in the admin page I have it set to
"Allow guests to see news from the news board - even if guest are not allowed to see the board?" YES

www.the-rota.com
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: G6Cad on December 13, 2006, 10:22:18 PM
Have you also set what forum board to use as the news board in the settings ?
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: londonhogfan on December 13, 2006, 10:37:17 PM
Yea, I have been using TP for about 8 months.  Everything is set and it works fine when someone is logged in.  Only problem is for guests.
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: RoarinRow on December 13, 2006, 10:50:40 PM
does this feature use /Sources/news.php?  I had several errors in my log on that file.  Did a search on SMF and someone else had the same error in their log using SMF 1.1.

I did like him and just used the previous version of news.php from the 1.1 RC3 package.  I haven't see the error since (knock on wood).
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 26, 2006, 11:46:12 PM
Quote from: RoarinRow on December 13, 2006, 10:50:40 PM
does this feature use /Sources/news.php?  I had several errors in my log on that file.  Did a search on SMF and someone else had the same error in their log using SMF 1.1.



I did like him and just used the previous version of news.php from the 1.1 RC3 package.  I haven't see the error since (knock on wood).
where did you get that news.php??
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Lesmond on December 26, 2006, 11:52:55 PM
Like he says he got it from the RC3 package. if you still have a copy of smf 1-1-rc3 just unzip and look in the Sources folder. don't forget if you do use it backup the SMF1.1.1 first :)
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 12:03:35 AM
Quote from: Lesmond on December 26, 2006, 11:52:55 PM
Like he says he got it from the RC3 package. if you still have a copy of smf 1-1-rc3 just unzip and look in the Sources folder. don't forget if you do use it backup the SMF1.1.1 first :)


ya that's my problem i don't have rc3 anymore.. can someone hook me up?
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 12:07:01 AM
look here http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?archive
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 12:11:22 AM
thanks man!
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 12:18:02 AM
it didn't work
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 12:20:59 AM
Which bit?
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 12:27:32 AM
guests still can't see the news when i replaced the new.php with the rc3 one.
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 12:31:19 AM
Try this one Backup your old one first
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 12:41:07 AM
doesn't work.. damn i need tp 9.6 bad
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 12:47:25 AM
Quote from: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 12:41:07 AM
doesn't work.. damn i need tp 9.6 bad
But we are on TinyPortal v0.9.7 :)
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 12:47:52 AM
Quote from: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 12:47:25 AM
Quote from: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 12:41:07 AM
doesn't work.. damn i need tp 9.6 bad
But we are on TinyPortal v0.9.7 :)

ya but this stuff worked for me on 9.6..
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 01:01:12 AM
Could you try adding a newsbox to one of your blocks, I have one set up in a center block at the top, then see if guest can see that
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 01:08:55 AM
ya but that's not what i want.. i have news that's important and if they click the topic i want them to register..
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 01:13:19 AM
That is not why I was asking, I just wanted to know if guest could see the news in a block, also some themes don't show the news
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 01:33:14 AM
Quote from: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 01:13:19 AM
That is not why I was asking, I just wanted to know if guest could see the news in a block, also some themes don't show the news

oh yeah? well i had the same them before and it worked fine well i'll give it a shot man 1 sec
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 01:39:23 AM
i added it.. does the same thing as the news.. lol
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Lesmond on December 27, 2006, 01:56:34 AM
Oh boy! now I am at a loss, you could try asking over at SMF.

Sorry I couldn't have been more help
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on December 27, 2006, 02:02:13 AM
is there a 9.6 for download anywhere?
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: G6Cad on December 27, 2006, 09:23:31 AM
Look in the download section and the Archived Releases
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on January 03, 2007, 02:52:22 AM
Quote from: G6 on December 27, 2006, 09:23:31 AM
Look in the download section and the Archived Releases

it's not there....
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: othersi on January 03, 2007, 03:52:07 AM
Quote from: G6 on December 13, 2006, 10:22:18 PM
Have you also set what forum board to use as the news board in the settings ?

Where is this set?
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on January 03, 2007, 04:34:45 AM
Quote from: G6 on December 13, 2006, 10:22:18 PM
Have you also set what forum board to use as the news board in the settings ?

ya as you can see

http://tmgonline.org
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: IchBin on January 03, 2007, 05:13:31 AM
Quote from: othersi on January 03, 2007, 03:52:07 AM
Quote from: G6 on December 13, 2006, 10:22:18 PM
Have you also set what forum board to use as the news board in the settings ?

Where is this set?
Take a look in your TinyPortal settings. Its very obvious where it says which boards you want to pull news from.
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: othersi on January 03, 2007, 05:34:01 AM
I've obviously missed something, as I see no news-board setting in the TP settings.

This is a screenshot of my TP settings page.

http://www.othersi.com/storage/tp_setting.jpg
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: TMG1 on January 03, 2007, 06:31:15 AM
Quote from: othersi on January 03, 2007, 05:34:01 AM
I've obviously missed something, as I see no news-board setting in the TP settings.

This is a screenshot of my TP settings page.

http://www.othersi.com/storage/tp_setting.jpg

its in your front page settings..
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: othersi on January 04, 2007, 06:15:10 PM
This is my front page settings:

http://www.othersi.com/storage/frontpage.jpg

The only reference to a news board is the setting to allow guests to see it or not.  I still don't see where I set what board is classed as the news board.
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: IchBin on January 05, 2007, 12:34:39 AM
"Show posts on the front page from:"
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: othersi on January 05, 2007, 02:26:29 AM
 :o

Oh.  I assumed the issue was setting a board specifically as a "news board", not simply which boards showed up on the front page.

I misunderstood the issue.
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: IchBin on January 05, 2007, 03:55:14 AM
Actually, I think it needs to be labeled better so that it is more clear that it is news instead of just forum posts on the front page.
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: othersi on January 05, 2007, 04:07:59 AM
I agree it needs to be worded better.

The way it stands now, it reads like News items is completely different from Forum posts showing on the front page.

I mean... I could set it so posts from each and every one of my boards shows on the front page.  The "Show forum-posts on front page from:" part of the settings isn't specific to news... it could be news, it could simply be showing automatically-updated forum content on your front page.

The "Allow guests to see news from the news board ..." part reads like there is a setting somewhere to create a board that is "tagged" in some way as a News board.
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: Hakker on July 07, 2007, 04:39:06 PM
sorry to bring back up an old thread but I have the same problem

I have set a forum board NEWS which is used as the news block however guests can't see it while I have the option "Allow guests to see news from the news board - even if guest are not allowed to see the board?" marked and added NEWS to the "Show forum-posts on front page from:" list however guests can't view it while members can.

this is on tinyportal 0.98 and smf 1.1.3
Title: Re: Frontpage news not showing for guests.
Post by: IchBin on July 07, 2007, 05:16:12 PM
If you can hold on for a bit, we are going to try and get an update out for TP 0.9.x that should fix some of these small issues.