Hi,

i have written a custom class to manage some news. The administration of the dataobjects works fine, but there are some optical limitations in the CMS. I have also tried to use the dataobject manager (successfully). But there were too many limitations in the HTMLTextEditor. Could anybody have a look at the attached image? The screenshot shows the problems in detail. The Screenshot is from IE8. With Firefox (3.x) it is the same problem.

I am still not sure, what is the best way to manage data objects like 'news' in Silverstripe. Is it a good idea to save the complete contentblock of one news as HTMLText into one databasefield?

Or is it a better way to build a relation like: One NEWS has many PARTS and one Part has one IMAGE

News
|_ Part 1 - Image
|_ Part 2
|_ Part 3 - image

Maybe someone will post some ideas, suggestions or examples? Is the an existing 'News'-Module?

Here is my code from News.php:

<?php

class News extends DataObject {
	static $singular_name = 'News';
	static $plural_name = 'News';
		
	static $db = array(
	'Headline' => 'Varchar(255)',
	'Subheadline' => 'Varchar(255)',
	'Copytext' => 'HTMLText',
	'Anzeigen' => 'Boolean'
	);	

	function getCMSFields_forPopup() {
		return new FieldSet(
			new TextField('Headline', 'Headline'),
			new TextField('Subheadline', 'Subheadline'),
			new SimpleHTMLEditorField('Copytext','Bitte Text eingeben', array(
				'css' => 'themes/css/editor.css',
				'insertUnorderedList' => true,
				'copy' => true,
				'justifyCenter' => false
				)
			),
			new CheckboxField('Anzeigen')
		);
	}
	 
	static $searchable_fields = array (
		'Headline',
		'Subheadline'
	);
	
	static $summary_fields = array(
		'Created',
		'Headline',
		'Subheadline'
	); 
		 
	static $field_labels = array (
	);
	

}


class News_Controller extends DataObject {

}

?>

And here the code from NewsHolder.php:

	class NewsHolder extends Page {
	
	static $singular_name = 'News Ãœbersicht';
	static $plural_name = 'News Ãœbersichten';
	
	static $has_many = array(
		'News' => 'News'
	);
	

}

class NewsHolder_Controller extends Page_Controller {

	function init() {
	parent::init();
	// Javascript und CSS für Mouse-Over-Effekte einlesen:
	}

	
}

Thanks a lot, carsten.