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how to use snippet as criteria in Ditto?

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    omnivore Reply #1, 19 years, 4 months ago
    The title says it. I have a tv with a unixtime in it. If I want Ditto to return values greater than right now, Ditto doesn’t understand a nested snippet call such as

    [[Ditto? &parents=`47` &sortBy=`testSort` &sortDir=`ASC` &filter=`testSort,[[unixtime]],6` ]]


    where [[unixtime]] refers to a snippet that returns the unixtime. The objective would be to return items later than right now.
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      Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 19 years, 4 months ago
      You’d have to alternate cached and uncached calls:

      [!Ditto ... [[unixtime]] !] (or vice versa)
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