I think we're looking at two different ways to skin a cat. I'm suggesting that for every insert, you include the date. Then when you want to display the records, you sort them by date and use the method I suggested earlier. That way you don't have to worry about deleting the record with the date and being left with a bunch of records without a date in them.

Here's a quick bit of untested code:

<@ASSIGN "r_tempdate" "" >
<@ROWS>
<@IF <@COLUMN = <@VAR >
don't display anything for the date field here, just display the other fields outside of the <@IF></@IF> but inside of the <@ROWS></@ROWS>
<@ELSE>
Display date field <@COLUMN >
Reassign variable <@ASSIGN "r_tempdate" <@COLUMN " >
</@IF>
</@ROWS>

Hope this helps,

Steve Smith

Oakbridge Information Solutions
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On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Campbell Steve wrote:

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 don’t 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
don’t 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 doesn’t make
sense, I am sorry. My explaining skills aren’t that great sometimes.

Thanks
Steve
Forerunners Org


 

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