"Archived" in a CMS often means removing the content from a "live" table or
tables and moving it to an "archive" table or tables, which is necessary for
keeping the database fit and trim (and performant).  This is typically
combined with a checkbox on a search form to "Search Archives As Well,"
which in turn changes the database view that is searched (one view for live
content only -- the default -- and another view that UNIONs the live and
archived tables).

What you're doing sounds like partitioning within the same table, which you
can do by simply adding an Archived bit column to the PlumContentItem table,
adding a corresponding field to the forms that manage the content, and
making the other changes to the search functionality in Verity.cfc to
separate your content into two physical collections for each virtual
collection (live and archived).

Respectfully,

Adam Phillip Churvis
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:02 AM
Subject: [plum] CMS Question


> I seem to be in an "archive" mood this week. I don't have experience with
a
> wide variety of CMS tools, but is a status of "Archived" (in addition to
> Inactive/Rejected/Created/Published) a common thing? This is definitely
not
> a high priority feature request - I'm just curious (it's relatively easy
to
> do on the front-end in a myriad number of ways). I'm working on a few
> projects where I'll be displaying current "articles" using
> <cf_DisplayContentNamesByCategory>, but I'd like to keep all of the
related
> items in the same category and segregate them by current and archived.
This
> may be an overly simplistic view of how to do this, but I'm definitely
open
> to suggestions.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Dave Jones.
>
>


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