[Zope] using smart folder to pick certain number of news articles to display in the home page

[kamal hamzat]

Thanks  so much Martjin.

I would appreciate it if anybody that has done something similar could share 
their experience with me.

Regards.

kamal


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martijn Pieters" <mj at zopatista.com>
To: "kamal hamzat" <hamzat at dnetsystems.net>
Cc: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] using smart folder to pick certain number of news 
articles to display in the home page


> On 6/30/07, kamal hamzat <hamzat at dnetsystems.net> wrote:
>> I have folders containing the news articles, I have created a smart 
>> folder
>> in the root that allows me to display these articles in the homepage of 
>> my
>> website. How can I can I set up the smart folder so that just the first 
>> two
>> articles that matched my criteria from each folder are display in the 
>> home
>> page.
>
> You can't. Smart Folders cannot handle such a complex scenario. You'll
> have to create a custom python script and template combination that
> makes the query, sorts it by path and filters out any results over 2
> per folder. This'll require some python coding.
>
> -- 
> Martijn Pieters
>