Newsletter Archives & Lists

[kevincrafts]

In D7 Express, there's two ways to show previous newsletters:

Archive Page

A paginated list, sorted by most recent, of all newsletters of a specific type. This is not a content type. Just a path that will return the display of newsletters with the titles and summary.

Example: https://www.colorado.edu/today/newsletter/cbt-students

Newsletter List Block

A block can also be created that allows the editor to choose which type and how many (1-10) recent newsletters they want to display. Underneath the list there is a link to the archive page to see more newsletters. The display is the newsletter title and summary.

Example: https://www.colorado.edu/today/newsletter-list

[patrickbrown-io]

Archive Page

There is an issue. The summary isn't simply a summary field on a Newsletter-- it is the first Article or User-Content in the Newsletter used as a summary. Which means its a paragraph, in a paragraph, in a paragraph, which will have another reference to an Article if its an Article content paragraph. The "summary" grabs that first Article or pseudo-Article title buried in this monster nesting dolls of paragraphs. I don't believe we can dive that deep like that on a View which would satisfy the paginated and not-a-content type endpoint requirement.

Options:

• Content Type: we do it like the Issue Archive, js saves the day. We would need to manually add these pages. This could get messy as they'd need to create pages for every taxonomy.
• We could do this as a View without summary field
• Add a summary field to the Newsletter content type. If thats not filled out, then nothing shows up