[Snippet] NewsListing 6.4.2 [Stable]

Oh, you mean customizing each separately? Makes sense. Can you log that as a feature request? Thanks.

Hi Mark,

I’m still trying to work out how to use &filter properly. Still can’t seem to get it to work, or don’t understand how to use it.

What values can you put in documentobjector/tvwithtvprefix and the criteria?

If I have a TV called Category, do I type ’tvCategory’?

And if the TV has the word ’blue’ in it, and I would like to have all documents with the word ’blue’ in their Category TV listed, what can I type?

Currently I’ve tried: &filter=`tvCategory,==blue,1` and had no success. I think I misunderstand the way this variable works.

Thanks

mark j

Mark,

It should be


If you wanted to use comparison operators (>,>=,<,<=,==,!=) then you would replace the mode operator (1-6, in this case 1) with that.

I’m getting a message that there is ’No entries found’.

Yet I know I have a TV called ’Category’ with the word ’Humour’ inside it.

I’m using the following call on my page:


I want to be able to return all pages with the word ’Humour’ in their Category TV. Essentially, I’m trying to make a list of articles categorised as ’Humour’.

Is there some setting I need to check or something - what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

mark j

On Gmail they have a feature called labels. They basicly work like folders except that a single email can have multiple labels causing it to appear in multiple folders even though only one copy exists. A feature like this could be really nice in MODx with an idea like labels or virtual folders. I don’t know if that is something for a snippet or if it would have to be designed into the base architecture.

But it would be nice to be able to use dropmenu to create a set of buttons to filter an archive of posts. I guess it would have to work where a new publisher would choose from a predesigned drop down list of categories. Or the drop menu might build a list of authors based on whoever has actually publsished a blog entry. Or dates. I guess these virtual folders could sort on just about any data field.

Is that the kind of things you guys are trying to accomplish with the &filter tag?

I’m also wondering how do you go about simply having an archive listing i.e. a list sorted by month.

I tried:



But instead get a summary of everything.

When I type:



I get one summarized listing followed by an archive list (this is the bit that I want).

How do I get a simple Archive list using Newslisting? And can you template the archive list? Or do you need to modify the Snippet?

Also, is there a way of filtering by year, so you have a listing of 2006, 2005, etc.

Cheers

mark j

For the Archive only view use this temporarily: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,4181.msg31144.html#msg31144

There will be a simple way to handle the Archive only view as well as Archive templating in NewsListing’s successor. If you can wait a day or two you will be a happy man...

Thanks for the pointer!

Do you have ideas with my previously mentioned &filter issue? I’ve been going through a bit of trial and error, but haven’t stumbled onto the correct use of &filter. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Looking forward to the next update of Newslisting. It is really quite a great snippet, and it can only get better.

Thanks

mark j

When using NewsListing 6.4.2 to generate my RSS feed, I notice that the description field isn’t correct. (see code)



Any suggestion to correct it ?

I add a link to explain the problem : http://www.abcdomotique.info/rss.xml.html

May be this can help