On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Dave Mangot wrote:

> On Jul 8, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Dave Mangot wrote:
>>> Is there a way to mark a blog category as excluded from the main
>>> aggregation of blog postings on the main page?  Should I just edit  
>>> the
>>> SQL in Blog.Macros directly?  If so, I'm not sure which table I  
>>> should
>>> be looking at.
>>>
>>> We have a new blog category that only a small subset of the company
>>> cares about.
>
>> If you look at the Blog.Macros page you'll see it accepts a  
>> "category"
>> velocity variable that you can set.
>
>> You can also modify the HQL query in Blog.Macros page to suit your
>> needs if you want.
>
> Actually, the funny thing is I want to include everything BUT a  
> specific
> category.  Being able to include one category is pretty neat and I  
> could
> see how that would be useful.  I've tried a variety of syntaxes for  
> NOT
> and OR both in
>
> #set($category = "")
>
> and
>
> Blog.Macros, but no success yet.
>
> I've also tried specifying multiple categories with AND, but no  
> success
> there either.  :(

I'm on holiday right now and I don't have much time to experiment with  
this but try editing the Blog.Macros page and modify the HQL. You  
could introduce a new categoryExclusion variable and based on it  
exclude some categories using a modified HQL query.

Thanks
-Vincent
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