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#1 2005-10-08 14:44:12

grad

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From: Poznan, Poland

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...make TXP distinguish sticky articles w/ cat from articles w/o cat.?

How to filter sticky articles that don’t belong to any category and those that belong to any category within current section? I need something like this:

<code><!— Section’s summary —>
<txp:article form=“summary” limit=“1” status=“sticky” category=“empty” />
<!— Subsections’ summaries —>
<txp:article form=“summary-front-sub” status=“sticky” category=“not_empty” /></code>

Is there a standard way to do this or a plugin?

Help would be very appreciated.

Last edited by grad (2005-10-09 08:47:55)

#2 2005-10-10 14:44:43

grad

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Re: ...make TXP distinguish sticky articles w/ cat from articles w/o cat.?

I haven’t found a way to do it. I wanted a sticky article without category to sit on top of stickies with categories. Filtering on existence of category would be the best option to rely on as <code>offset</code> takes into accout all articles of given status. I had to use status pending for this.

#3 2005-10-10 15:12:53

els

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Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: ...make TXP distinguish sticky articles w/ cat from articles w/o cat.?

The mdm_if_category plugin can do that. Example:

<code><txp:mdm_if_category category=”!”>
article tag for article without category here
</txp:mdm_if_category></code><br />
<code><txp:mdm_if_category category=”“>
article tag for article with category here
</txp:mdm_if_category></code><br />
I’m not using it anymore so I’m not absolutely sure that this plugin still works in 4.0.1.

#4 2005-10-11 09:07:25

grad

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Re: ...make TXP distinguish sticky articles w/ cat from articles w/o cat.?

doggiez, thanks. I’ve tried it but it’s not what I meant. mdm_if_category filters current category only, basically it works the same as updated if_category. What I want is to display on the same page (which is not category list) sticky articles with and without categories. It is on the section’s frontpage:

[section’s frontpage]

• sticky article without any category (always on top)
• sticky article with category-1
• sticky article with category-2
• …
• sticky article with category-n

#5 2005-10-11 13:13:20

els

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Re: ...make TXP distinguish sticky articles w/ cat from articles w/o cat.?

Ah, I see. Then I don’t think it’s possible, what you would need is a value for ‘category’ like “” or “!”, but that doesn’t exist (yet?). What you could do as a workaround is create a category called ‘empty’…

#6 2005-10-11 13:25:04

grad

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Re: ...make TXP distinguish sticky articles w/ cat from articles w/o cat.?

(…) what you would need is a value for ‘category’ like “” or “!”, but that doesn’t exist (yet?).

Exactly.

What you could do as a workaround is create a category called ‘empty’…

I can’t use a dummy category, as it would appear on my category list which is to mimic subsections.

#7 2005-10-11 13:58:41

els

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Re: ...make TXP distinguish sticky articles w/ cat from articles w/o cat.?

grad wrote:

I can’t use a dummy category, as it would appear on my category list which is to mimic subsections.

What about something like this plugin for your category list then? Make your dummy category a subcategory and it’s excluded from the list.

#8 2005-10-12 18:45:47

grad

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Re: ...make TXP distinguish sticky articles w/ cat from articles w/o cat.?

Thanks.