To be honest I wasn't quite sure where to file this article; module development or hack?  It is both, as I have had to add extra functionality to the mambo core to provide some functionality for my modules parameters, which were not previously available.

The module I have developed is called troozFlash, for want of a better name, which allows the administrator to define which content item they want displayed in the module area - a bit like newsflash but without the randomisation (a customisation asked for).

This article has been translated to Polish, available at mambopl.com

Have you ever wanted to, as an Administrator, be able to view your own mambo website while it is offline?  One of the reasons you may have your site offline, is that you are updating the look which is made that more difficult when you can't see what it now looks like.

After a conversation, with idigital, I decided to see whether it was possible to allow administrators to view their site, whilst offline, when launched as a preview from within the administration screen.  The following hacks to the mambo core enable this, although some more testing still needs to be done.

A user has highlighted an issue with me, that I didn't even think of, with the generation of a pdf view of your article.  Unfortunately when you click on the PDF icon within Mambo, it generates the story in a seperate way from the normal article generation method.

The result of this means that when a user clicks on the PDF icon, they would see the whole page, including all the tags, plus the text in between them.