Location of sequence-previous, sequence-next
I have not looked at the internal code, so I don't know what is involved, but I would very much prefer it if the 'sequence-previous' data and the 'sequence-next' data were each available at every phase of the <!--#in--> tag. I would like to do: <!--#in this_and_that--> <tr> <td>Blah </td> <td>Blah </td> <td>Blah </td> <td>Blah </td> </tr> <!--#if sequence-end--> Previous href Next href <!--#/if--> <!--#/in--> where basically both the previous pointer and the next pointer show up at the end of the table. At the moment I am using this kludge: <!--#if expr="year and not last"--> <!--#in email_index size=20 start=query_start--> <tr> <td><!--#var year--></td> <td><!--#var full_name--></td> <td><a href="mailto:<!--#var home_emails-->"><!--#var home_emails--></td> <td><a href="mailto:<!--#var b_emails-->"><!--#var b_emails--></td> </tr> <!--#/in--> <!--#else--> <!--#in email_index size=20 start=query_start--> <tr> <td><!--#var full_name--></td> <td><!--#var year--></td> <td><a href="mailto:<!--#var home_emails-->"><!--#var home_emails--></td> <td><a href="mailto:<!--#var b_emails-->"><!--#var b_emails--></td> </tr> <!--#/in--> <!--#/if--> <tr><td colspan=4><table width=100%><tr> <!--#in email_index size=20 start=query_start--> <!--#if sequence-start--> <!--#if previous-sequence--> <td><center><a href="<!--#var URL--><!--#var sequence-query-->query_start=<!--#var previous-sequence-start-number-->">Previous</a></center></td> <!--#else--> <td><center>Previous</center></td> <!--#/if--> <!--#/if--> <!--#if sequence-end--> <!--#if next-sequence--> <td><center><a href="<!--#var URL--><!--#var sequence-query-->query_start=<!--#var next-sequence-start-number-->">Next</a></center></td> <!--#else--> <td><center>Next</center></td> <!--#/if--> <!--#/if--> <!--#/in--> I don't know what the overhead is for performing that <!--#in email_index--> twice, but I don't like it. It makes the code look kludgey and is a pain to work with. This code would be much cleaner and more understandable if the 'previous-sequence' stuck around until 'sequence-end'. Or for that matter, if there was a way, within an if block, to set variables in the surrounding namespace as opposed to an internal #with grouping. Then I could do like this: <!--#in this_and_that--> <tr> <td>Blah </td> <td>Blah </td> <td>Blah </td> <td>Blah </td> </tr> <!--#if sequence-start--> Set 'my_previous_blah' equal to 'previous_blah' <!--#/if--> <!--#if sequence-end--> Previous href (using my_sequence-prev) Next href (using sequence-next) <!--#/if--> <!--#/in--> which would still be a kludge, and yet still be easier to understand.
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Shaw, Howard