[Zope-CMF] Re: How do I use effective and expiration date?

[seb bacon]

There is also an 'Access inactive portal content' permission which you 
can set on a per-role basis.

seb

Carl Rendell wrote:
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:04:14 -0600
>> From: Mark Langkau <mark.langkau@pbmplus.com>
>> To: zope-cmf@zope.org
>> Subject: [Zope-CMF] How do I use effective and expiration date?
>>
>> Does anyone have examples of using the effective_date and
>> expiration_date metadata items for filtering content? I'm using the
>> default ZPT skins, Zope 2.4.3,  CMF 1.2, and Python 2.1.1 on Linux.
>>
>> For example, how would I "expire" a news item, yet allow it to still
>> show up when a user clicks the "news" menu link? I'm learning to use the
>> zpt skins, but so far the skins are winning ;-)  I need to filter on
>> dates, but I'm not sure how to do it with ZPT.
>>
>> I would like all "published"' news items to show up when I click the
>> "news" link in the top menu bar. But any news item with a metadata
>> Expiration Date older than "today" should not show up in the news_box,
>> or recent_news. I still want to keep all entries as published news
>> items, so I don't want to "retract" the news item.
>>
>> I would also like to use the effective_date to "pre-load" some news or
>> other content, but not have it viewable until some future date.
>>
>> Unless I'm missing something (probably very simple ;-), this doesn't
>> seem to be turned on out of the box.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
> 
> 
> I've run into this 'problem' when first using the CMF. The feature is 
> turned on out of the box, but if you are logged in and have sufficient 
> privilage to add and edit content, you'll see the content regardless of 
> effectivity date.
> 
> It allows you to view the site 'as it will be' if you are editing. I use 
> two browsers, one that i'm logged into for editing, and one that i'm not 
> to see it as the user will see it.
> 
> If you want to control the view of effectivity controlled items when 
> logged in. You can   set a publication rule on the portal_catalog search 
> to be sure you only view published items - we currently do this -
> 
> <dtml-in "portal_catalog.searchResults( Type='News Item'
>                                         , sort_on='Date'
>                                         , sort_order='reverse'
>                                         , review_state='published'
>                                         , orphan=0
>                                         )" size="4">
> 
> However, if you want to filter items that have not reached the 
> effectivity date yet, or those that have 'expired' you'll need to filter 
> those with a <dtml-if> at the dtml level for those that are logged in.
> 
> We do use effectivity a lot in our sites, and find it very effective.