Steve I really worked with this that you explained and as far as I can tell...doing a compare type tag is still probably the best way unless I am missing the boat on your details below.
Steve On 9/13/03 1:42 AM, "Steve Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I do for situations like this is: > > - Sort the search results by date > - Assign a variable (local/request scope) before the <@ROWS> loop > begins and make the value empty > - Once inside the <@ROWS> loop, check to see if the value of the date > for the current record is equal to the variable. If it is, don't > display the date. If it isn't, assign the value of the date for the > current record to the variable, then display the value of the date. > > The first time through, the check always fails because the variable is > empty. From then on, it only shows if it is changed. > > Hope this helps, > > Steve Smith > > Oakbridge Information Solutions > Office: (519) 624-4388 > GTA: (416) 606-3885 > Fax: (519) 624-3353 > Cell: (416) 606-3885 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.oakbridge.ca > > On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 11:56 PM, Campbell Steve wrote: > >> Hey everyone >> >> I have a simple detail page that I am using to show daily news. >> Nothing special and/or nothing really out of the ordinary. What I >> need is this. >> >> I need to display these daily news posts on my news page. The only >> thing is that I donąt want to display my date on every post. What I >> mean by this is the following. >> >> >> My fields show like this >> Date datehere >> Title - news Title here >> Story scrollable textare here for the story. >> >> Now, when I come in later in the day and post another news item, I >> donąt want the same date to show up again on my detail page...news >> page..the page that I am using to show all my news. >> >> So, I would presume the easiest way to do this is to go ahead and let >> it add the date each time I post a new news item, then do a search >> action at the beginning of my taf that can compare to see if the >> day-date is already there. Then if it is, it would just leave it blank >> with the elseif. Would that be the easiest way??? >> >> If this makes sense and you have some idea of what I am needing to >> find out here, then any help would be appreciated. If it doesnąt make >> sense, I am sorry. My explaining skills arenąt that great sometimes. >> >> Thanks >> Steve >> Forerunners Org >> >> >> > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
