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need help: how to NOT-list a selected list of headlines?

 
 


LiquidQuest
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Jul 28, 2006, 10:28 AM

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need help: how to NOT-list a selected list of headlines? Can't Post
the headline of this thread might be a bit confusing, but I hope that my explaination below sheds some light at what i am targeting.

we can have a selected group of article headlines to show up on any of our articles by doing the following:

1) add an article field through the admin area and set its type to "checkbox".

2) insert the following code into the page template (the following example uses a direct PHP include tag for PHP type files, not SSI includes... and assumes that the checkbox field is art_field4)
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<!-- INCLUDE SELECTED ARTICLES--> 
<?php include('/cgi-bin/exec/search.cgi?fields=art_field4&keyword=1&perpage=5&template=search/selected_headlines.html'); ?>

is there a search query that retrieves a list of the latest five articles which do NOT include any recent article tagged as "selected" through art_field4? Smile
Marssin


LiquidQuest
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Jul 29, 2006, 6:15 AM

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Re: [LiquidQuest] need help: how to NOT-list a selected list of headlines? [In reply to] Can't Post
hello? Blush
Marssin


MikeB
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Jul 29, 2006, 10:35 AM

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Re: [LiquidQuest] need help: how to NOT-list a selected list of headlines? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Marssin,

Thanks for the post! Smile

If you're using a checkbox to choose your "Selected" articles then a way of displaying all of the unselected articles isn't actually something you'll be able to do.

When you're using a checkbox, if the field isn't selected then there isn't actually a value that is assigned to that field and this just has to do with the way checkboxes in general work.

Probably the easiest thing would be to use a dropdown menu with the option to set an article as "Selected" or not rather than a checkbox. This should allow you to create the effect you're looking for by showing the selected articles and also the unselected articles.

I hope this helps and if you have any other questions or comments, just let me know! Smile

Cheers,
Mike Briggs - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

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