"Board news" mod needed - Could you do this?

[mytreo]

Hi all,

I've recently moved from YaBB1 Gold and we need to implement a mod that allowed us to display a customised news area within each board. I made an attempt to begin writing the mod myself but soon got way out of my depth. I hope somebody reading this feels like taking on the challenge... go on it will be fun!

If any developer/mod writer here could make this mod then please reply, we really need this feature again to make our forum complete. Perhaps we could even arrange a small reward for a good solution.

Here's some info on the old mod for YaBB 1 Gold (it has never been made for YaBBSE AFAIK) The old mod was called "Board News"...

Description: This mod adds a small section to the top of each board where moderators of that board can run a news strip. This avoids having to make a post for every small announcement - moderators can just update the news section.

You can see a screenshot of a news section at the top of a board here: http://www.badpoo.co.uk/ronnie/images/examples/board_news.gif

Only moderators of that board, global moderators and administrators can edit the news. All the usual YaBBC tags work (no HTML).

Please folks!!
Thanks
Chris

[A.M.A]

Maybe this is what you are looking for:
Displaying 'news' as forum-wide 'super-sticky'

[mytreo]

Yes perhaps it might just do, thank you. How would I designate a particular post as a news item so that it was always the same post displayed?

Edit: Oh now I see that it wouldn't really do what I wanted. I need each moderator to be able to edit his board news independantly.

[mytreo]

Anybody that can help with this please stand up

[mytreo]

MASSIVE THANKS to Grudge for making this mod for me in double quick time and with perfect functionality (payment is on it's way!). I will ask Grudge to make this Mod publicly available so others can use it.

SMF Rocks! 

[Midgard]

May be use SSI board news