I've got some screenshots for you on the Community Server Daily News List Blog with the core conversion process now complete. A Daily News post can now be broken out into multiple news items, each an individually searchable, linkable and tagged blog post. For some background, I described the List Builder in "It Begins" and the process of breaking out each Daily News <LI /> item in "Parsing the News." What I did to take us home was to create a CSModule, which I'll describe in a future episode.
Below you can see what we've been going for, the conversion of each individual Daily News item to a non-published weblog post in its own dedicated blog awaiting final processing. The CSModule does all of what you see here automatically when I post the Daily News.
What I would do at this point is to open each item, modify the title if necessary, add some tags, and click "publish." I'm processing the news item like any normal blog post, in other words.
And the final result. Each Daily News item now has its own Url, is fully searchable, and contains a number of tags which will be quite powerful when aggregated with all other posts. The first item, for instance, has the tags "Coding," "Extending Community Server," "Integrating Community Server," "Cory Smith," and "Tod Birdsall."
Now that the core engine is complete I'll need to give thought to batching past Daily News issues and making this thing real.