Ah, this is one my favorite questions!
When you publish a bunch of objects to a container, they are all passed to
the handler (if you use the same handler for each). Let's assume you have
objects A, B, C, and D using method Display.
Now, normally, you code your handlers like so:
<CFA_Handler Object="Article" SEPARATOR="<P>">
<CFOUTPUT>#article.title#</CFOUTPUT>
</CFA_Handler>
What people forget is that you can put code both before and after the
CFA_Handler tag. In fact, the CFA_Handler tag is just a 'helper' for
handlers. You don't have to use it.
So, let's say you want a table, 2 columns across, you could do it rather
easily like so:
<CFSET X = 1>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<CFA_Handler OBJECT="Article">
<TD>#Article.Title#</TD>
<CFSET X = X + 1>
<CFIF X MOD 2>
</TR><TR>
</CFIF>
</CFA_Handler>
<!--- handle potential missing final td --->
<CFIF NOT (X MOD 2)>
<TD> </TD>
</CFIF>
</TR>
</TABLE>
Make sense?
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> Subject: How to get a container to show results in a table, not in a
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>
> Hello
>
> I am interested in creating a container that will display the selected
> objects (via any publishing rule) in a table format - ie instead of one
> object listed after the other going down the page, I would like to have it
> put the results in a table of n columns. The first item in the container
> goes top left, then the second item in the top right and so on..
>
> How would I be able to accomplish this? We currently have it
> implemented as
> six, eight or ten separate containers, but it will turn into a maintenance
> night mare
>
> Terry Mulholland
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