News items with image and event date in home page (MODx Evo 1.0.2)

Hi,
I’m new to MODx, and i would like to:

(1) create a news section in my website. Each news item should have a date (not the date the page was published, but a date related to the event the news item is about) and an image.

(2) Show the last 5 news items in home page (news title, date and image for each news item).


I know this can be done with Ditto, but I don’t know how to attach a specific image and a date to each news item, and to display them in the homepage.

Also, the end user creating a new news item should be prompted to insert a date and an image, along with the standard document fields (title, description, content, etc)

I hope this can be done without creating a custom snippet. I really like MODx but I’m having trouble figuring out how to make it easy for the end user to add new news items.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Pietro

That’s what Template Variables (TVs) are for. One with a "date" input type for the date, and another with an "image" input type for the image. Ditto will happily work with them.

http://www.sottwell.com/how-template-variables-work.html

Quote from: sottwell at Mar 26, 2010, 07:40 AM

That’s what Template Variables (TVs) are for. [...]

Thanks a lot, Susan!
I’ll check it out