[CMS] How can I add a thumbnail and a summary field to an article?

[shutterfreak]

Is there a way to add a thumbnail and a summary field (not the first 120 characters) to an article? The use case is to allow previews with the thumbnail (if available) and the content summary in the sections, and to show the full content only on the article page itself.

Any suggestions?

[Trevor Hannant]

This would require modifying the code which we can't support.

[shutterfreak]

I see.

Then I'd probably have to start from Edwin Brown's blog post about adding custom content types.

[Edwin Brown]

I would suggest before you do a lot of work you look at http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-8391. There's currently a mistake in the status- this isn't completed but it is in process. I expect to get the status corrected today.

[shutterfreak]

I would suggest before you do a lot of work you look at http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-8391. There's currently a mistake in the status- this isn't completed but it is in process. I expect to get the status corrected today.

Thanks for this info!

However I get an access error (permission violation) on that ticket

[Edwin Brown]

Check back later- I'm not sure what's up. Anyway, we're redoing the edit interface and we're adding the ability to set the preview text and preview image manually.

[shutterfreak]

I'm looking forward to this!

Any idea on the release that should contain this enhancement?

[Edwin Brown]

Sorry, I'm not in a position to answer that question. I would say weeks not months, since it's in active development.