SNC Development

I have been working on Content Management System (CMS) sites quite a bit over the last two years and am in the process of sifting through these sites to pull out some of the features I feel would be useful to others.

I expect this post to be the start of a series of posts regarding CMS widgets.   This particular item is an announcement slider that sits at the top of page and swipes with new announcements.  I created a settings page to define the table, query, order by and display field to be used for the contents of the slider.  My default settings pull announcements from the knowledge base where the topic equals ‘News’

Below is a screenshot of what the slider looks like:

When you apply the update set you will have an application menu that looks like the following:

Included in the update set is an…