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OK, this is prob a simple solution, but I am a newbie and it eludes me. I will explain what I am doing:

I need to transfer a news archive from a previous website into my new website in EE. The news archive has 3 fields, a date, (posted a separate thread for why the date is showing up as a number and not a date), and a text Area body field. I am using structure to manage most of my pages, (but obviously with a large number of entries, the structure becomes unmanagable). I have created a new channel just for the news archive entries, so the posting a new entry is as simple as Content > Publish > News Release. I have assigned a template/field group specific to that channel. This channel is not being managed by the ‘Structure’ module at all. On a side note I have noticed that I have to assign the URL to the ‘Pages URL’ as it will not show up in the standard Publish Tab URL title area….

There are MANY entries I will need to migrate, so I need to make sure I do it right the first time. Going back over each entry would kill much time.

SO, i am trying to call my ‘news archive’ entries in the template of another channel, (which I assume is possible..) I need to pull the news archive entries in multiple locations across the site, (in different ways for each location). In a template of the first location I need to pull the info, (summarized with 3-5 lines or so, and limited to 10-20 entries…which i can figure out once i get the data to at least pull..)

I am using:

{exp:channel:entries channel="pressreleasearchive"
    orderby="date"    
    limit="5"}
{/exp:channel:entries}

The channel i am trying to pull from is called “pressreleasearchive”, and placed inside the template location within a different channel.
I get no output of data at all, so I’m not sure what is going on.

You aren’t using any fields, not even {title}. Try this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="pressreleasearchive"}
{title}
{/exp:channel:entries}

So i tried inserting 2 of the fields in my field group ‘pressreleasearchive’ in there:

{exp:channel:entries channel="pressreleasearchive"}
{DateOfEntry}
{PressReleaseBody}

{/exp:channel:entries}

with no luck. May i have it setup wrong then? i AM able to get this to show channel title:

{exp:channel:info channel="pressreleasearchive"}

Channel Name: {channel_title}


Description: {channel_description}

{/exp:channel:info}

:
Channel Name: Press Release Archive
Description:

At no point do I actually call a field group do I? Only the individual fields that are grouped to the channel i am needing to display

I’m pretty sure you’ll need the dynamic attribute off in this case:

{exp:channel:entries channel="pressreleasearchive" dynamic="no"}

OK, with that attribute,  got it to display ALL the entries, now to widdle it down..

OK, here’s an even more obvious question: I have gotten the channel entries to display in their entirety, and the date and title to display as i prefer.
What variable call/parameter limits each entry to like 5-10 lines, with the option to ‘read more’ or click to entry?

    If i get it figured out, I will update this entry   😊

OK, different question. In my code below, how do i make the {title} of the entry call, a link back to that entry, (a read more/ or read article type of function) Having a couple lines of the body would be great though, but this would solve my issue for this portion I believe

{exp:channel:entries channel="pressreleasearchive"  limit="7" display="1"    paginate="bottom"  dynamic="no"}

<h2>{title}</h2>
<p><strong>{DateOfEntry format="%F %d %Y"}   </strong><br />
<!-- {PressReleaseBody} --></p>

<p>{paginate}</p>

<p>Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}</p>

<p>{/paginate}</p>

<p>{/exp:channel:entries}

What variable call/parameter limits each entry to like 5-10 lines, with the option to ‘read more’ or click to entry?

There is no built-in way to do this, you’ll have to use a plugin like TruncHTML or similar.