Act can store news items about your conference in the database.
You can edit them through the web interface, and integrate them anywere in the web site. Atom feeds are automatically generated.
<div class="newsbox">
[% FOREACH item = global.news %]
<p><h3><a href="[% item.link %]">[% item.title %]</a></h3>
<em>[% date_format(item.datetime, 'datetime_short') %] by [% user_info(item.user) %]</em>
<br>
[% item.content %]</p>
[% END %]
</div>
The number of items can be limited by supplying a count argument to news:
[% FOREACH item = global.news(5) %]
News items are available as an Atom feed. The feed's URL is
/conf_id/atom/en.xml
where en represents the feed's language.
You can make this feed available by including the following line in the
<head> section of your pages, for example in your ui template:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="[% global.conference.name %]"
href="[% global.request.base_url %][% make_uri_info( 'atom', global.request.language ) %].xml" />