[Zope-CMF] Re: How do I use effective and expiration date?
Carl Rendell
cer@sol43.com
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:16:58 -0800
Yep,
I forgot about that one.
~C
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 01:33 PM, seb bacon wrote:
> 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.
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