how do I get a lisiting of last edited documents across the whole site?

http://emmanuelcc.com/index.php

this is what i’m working on. I want anytime a page is updated it gets a blurb on the front page, anyone?

I kinda did it with newslister, but it only watches on the top level.

NewsListing now supports multilevel in 6.3.3. but there is a much simpler snippet called ListIndexer that does what you ask.

From the default template:

how much newsListing accomplish this? I read through the config on it..

thanks for the other tip though!

If you upgrade to NewsListing 6.3.3 (search the forums) you will be able to use this call.



To get the recently created documents.

Mark,

This works, but I want to exclude folders and archives. So, I modified this to:
[!NewsListing? &multilevel=1 &startID=0 &hidefolders=true &showarch=false !]
but it displays the archives also. Did I enter the syntax correctly to exclude archives?

I’m wondering if there’s a bug with "showarch", because I tried this an alternate way at first. That is, I have a folder for each category (ie: car,motorcycle,truck) then I put multiple instances of NewsListing on the index page. The goal is to list the newest article from each category on the /index.html home page. So I got the IDs of the folders and setup something like this:

[!NewsListingThumb? &startID=`15` &showarch=`false` &summarize=`1` !] # car folder
[!NewsListingThumb? &startID=`30` &showarch=`false` &summarize=`1` !] # motorcycle folder
[!NewsListingThumb? &startID=`45` &showarch=`false` &summarize=`1` !] # truck folder

That shows only latest 1 item per folder, but also shows archive items for each folder. If I take out "summarize" it will show all recent items in the folder with no archive items. So, it appears I can use either "showarch" or "summarize" but not both together.

Try &showarch=`0`, for some reason that seems to work better.

Thanks! That worked like magic.

Since I’m asking questions, what’s the criteria for a "current" article versus an "archive" article? I haven’t run across documentation for that yet. Is that parameter tunable, so that I could define "current" as any article published in the last 30 days, or 2 weeks, etc...

PS: MODx is awesome. I’m an IT geek, but not a DBA or programmer. In 2 weeks I’ve been able to replicate the format of my Dreamweaver template based site, add more features, automate index creation, increase SEO customization, provide a web GUI for authors to input articles, and train them how to use it. There’s hundreds of CMS solutions, and I’m glad I chose MODx at the last minute. I have to admit I had some reluctance to use pre 1.0 software - but it works great!

As far as I can tell, with NewsListing, "archive" is anything beyond what you told it to display; if you tell it to display 3 summaries, then everything before that will be in the "archive" list.

But I may be way off on this, the snippet has developed far beyond what it was when I first wrote the blog tutorial section on how to use it.