News Categories - Label certain posts as news items
 

I currently run a phpbb site and need to know if this mod can be ported to vBulletin at all:

Slashdot Style News Mod

Here were it's features:

Feature Overview:
* Slashdot style news postings.
* News topics are marked in forum view.
* News categories are easily selected when posting or editing topics.
* Enable, disable, and set image path from the admin control panel.
* Easily assign forum and group permissions form the forum and group control panels.
* Easily add, edit, and delete news categories from the News control panel.
* Included RSS news syndication, to allow other sites to syndicate your news stories.

Now the news categories is the key for me. I need to be able to categorize news on the site and be able to post it in any forum, not be limited to one news forum.

Is this at all possible? I really need to see if this can be ported to vbulletin. It's a key feature for my site.

None of those demos given are working, is there any working demo I could see? I might be able to help you, I just want to get a better idea of what's being asked.

This is how it works on my site:

We currently have a advanced BBcode box installed where we added an extra button called "Insert News Code":

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And when you click on the button it adds this to the posting area for you:

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See how that code was inserted? Now members can post articles as per our standards and "fill in the blanks" so to speak.

If you'd like a working demo I could set you up with a test account on my current phpbb site that has this feature.