Hi. I'm new to Radiant (and Ruby, RoR) but eager to use Radiant for a website I maintain. The site has an Events page where upcoming events, workshops, etc. are listed. The Home page of the site displays a summary of the events; a list of links to the events with their start dates. Nothing fancy. Look at http://octopusgardenyoga.com if you're interested. It's maintained manually by editing the events.html and index.html files whenever events are added and as they expire.
I was hoping to find a way to automate the updating of the events and the summary list and Sean Cribbs' weblog on time-sensitive content (http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/11/24/how-to-write-time-sensitive-or-expiring-content/) looked like it would do the job. So after much stumbling around, I finally managed to get his tags working as extensions on my development system (Ubuntu Linux with radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem installed). In my Radiant-mental version, each event is a child page of /events/ and they are displayed with: <r:children:each> <div class="event"> <r:content /> </div> </r:children:each> This works as expected with expired content not displaying. However, I've not been able to get it to work for the summary list on the home page: <h4>Upcoming Events</h4> <ul> <r:find url="/events/"> <r:children:each> <r:if_content> <== this makes no difference <li><r:link />: <r:content part="start" /></li> <== "start" has start date content </r:if_content> </r:children:each> </r:find> </ul> Everything shows up whether it's expired or not. If anyone has any ideas for making the summary list work, I would very much appreciate hearing from you. BTW, I've read most of the discussion on page ordering, and while I don't pretend to understand the implementation issues, I think this would be a very useful feature to have. It seems to me that two additional page attributes, "display_on" and "remove_after" (or something to that effect), might do the trick for both page ordering and time-sensitive content. For example, <r:children:each by="display_on"> would provide page ordering and something like <r:if_date matches"regexpr"> would hide expired content. Just a thought. Thanks in advance. -- marshal _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
