Hi Luke,

It's my understanding that Content Group Lists are on the development table as we speak and these are to function like the Category Lists for products.  I'm wondering if this new block could have the ability to show not just the title, but a configurable number of characters of the body of the content.  For example, let's say I have a Blog entry that has a body containing 10000 characters.  I'd like to have the ability to have a list on my home page showing the title of the blog, and only 200 characters of the body.  The visiting user would have to click the link to get the entire body of the message.  I'd like for these articles to show up for non-registered users even if the blog is configured so that only registered users can view it.  To see the rest of the blog entry, the visiting user would have to log in, or register.

Do you think it'd be possible to accomodate a request like this with the new Content Group List?

Thanks :)

The existing Article List and Article View have the summary or full article view already. When you create a new article entry (blog entry), use "Page Break" icon on the HTML editor toolbar to break summary and rest article. If you do that, only summary part gets shown. User has to click the link to see the full article.

The permission for non-registered and registered users is total different issue than the Content Group List block. I don't even think it should belong to Blog. What you can do is that create one public content group and one protected content group. Add the summary to the public content group and full article to the protected content group. In summary of the public content group add a link pointing to the full article of the protected content group. Does this work for you?

Thank you for showing me the page break - that did the trick - to a degree...

I only seem to have 'Article List' - I don't see 'Article View' when adding a different or new block.  I'm not sure if the 'Article View' works different, when working with the 'Article List' the behavior isn't quite as you've described.  I've configured an article so that only registered users can view and add to the article.  When navigating to the article as a non-registered user or non-logged in user, I'm not prompted to log in to see the full article. Although, there is an 'add comment' button there and clicking this does prompt me to log in.

I tried creating an additional non-public content group.  The same problem as above occurs; non-registered users are not prompted to register.

I think creating an additional content group is suitable IF it were to prompt the non-registered user to register to read the material, but my only contention is that we'd have to maintain the articles in two different locations.

Am I doing something wrong?  Might you have any other suggestions?

Thanks :)

Can you please point me the link to your non-public content group? If it doesn't prompt, then it's abug and we will get this fix for you.

Sure - here's the link.

http://store.dotshoppingcart.com/coachbobwilliamson/View/Article/Full%20Articles/19.aspx

This is the bug to me. We will get this fixed for you.

This has been fixed.

Thanks Luke - working as expected.