Using Boards

[carl101lee]

I have set-up a small site with a news feature using the default Boards set-up - I like they way the work but…

How do I set them to auto update - regenerate when a new blog post is added? The user doesn’t want to have to have to update the board every time they add a news item?

The Scheduler - is complex and no info/tutorials on how to use it? where do you set-up elements and what does it do?

I have set-up Cron jobs on tasks- After lots of errors on the cron Schedule - after using the wrong expression (no spaces) I had to manually remove from the data base table to get past the error.

But then their is no task for this?

Please advise ? Otherwise I will switch back to using Page list block.

Carl

[JohntheFish]

I agree, Boards are both complex and lacking in documentation.

A little bit disappointed with boards

I have been looking at how the blog board is built in Atomik and am a little bit disappointed. I was expecting the slots in the board to be built out from the way Containers work, but it is a completely separate mechanism. I was expecting the topics filter to be like adding a topics block to an area, like a sidebar or a container area, but it is actually implemented as a hard coded stack display in the board template. Containers are so simple and elegant in code and in UI. Boards are massivel…

[fixt.org]

I doubt this answers carl101lee’s questions, but for those interested in watching a Boards “quickest walkthrough in the world” by Andrew Embler and Franz Maruna, here’s a link:

Concrete CMS September 2021 Town Hall - YouTube