Fewer than max nr of items show in section loop

Monday 27 October 2003 12:25:50 am

Hi,

I'm trying to show a maximum of 3 news articles that have their (self-defined) 'visible' flag on. This is my code:

{section name=News max=3 loop=fetch(...)}
{section-exclude match=$:item.data_map.visible.content|not()}
{$:item.name}<br>
{/section}

From the documentation I gathered that the iteration count will not be advanced if the loop item is discarded. In my output however, this is not the case.
For instance, I have the following newsitems:
Newsitem 1
Newsitem 2 (not visible)
Newsitem 3
Newsitem 4

My code only shows newsitems 1 and 3 (while I would have expected (and hoped) that 4 would also be shown).
Can anyone help?
TIA,

Vivienne

Tuesday 28 October 2003 6:02:03 am

I do have a sort_by in my fetch, but I'm under the impression that sort_by only influences the order in which items are shown, and not IF items are shown.
Can anyone back me up on this? And if I'm right, does someone else have a solution to my problem?

Tuesday 28 October 2003 6:18:55 am

I think you can fetch by class attribute:

http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/development/libraries/ez_template/operators/data_fetch

and filter by value. With this you could also apply a 'limit' to the number of returned items.

Paul

Tuesday 28 October 2003 6:46:34 am

Vivienne, the way Paul Forsyth suggests is the best and the only way to have exact 3 news items if 3 ore more are "visible".

---edited-----

I think you found a bug indeed (after reading the docs more closely)

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-paul

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