Date Prompt Help Please.

[mediacat]

Within the date prompt i need a way to display the years in descending order. Is this possible?

Cheers in advance

Ben

[Duncan Rounding]

What date prompt are you referring to Ben?

[mediacat]

I am referring to the Date Info Question and Date Range within the prompts tab on a product.

It is the layout named YearList that i need to get in descending order.

Ben

[Bruce]

hi Ben,

Am checking this one for you.

Regards,

[Bruce]

Ben,

That is one for the wish list. The variable 'YearList' is not editable at the moment. I will add it in there for you.

Kind regards,

[NormanRouxel]

You can fudge it. Edit layout Standard Year List and replace the line

<Actinic:Variable Name="YearLayout"/>

with

<actinic:block php="true">
$startyear = 2007;
$endyear = 2020;
$optionyear = '<Actinic:Variable Name="YearLayout" encoding="perl" selectable="false" />';
$optionyear = $startyear + ($endyear - $optionyear);
echo $optionyear;
</actinic:block>

And change the values for
$startyear = 2007;
$endyear = 2020;
to match what you actually use.
Note this this displays weirdly on Design Preview but is OK on Content Previews and live pages.

[Bruce]

Excellent Norman !! What can I say

[NormanRouxel]

Here's a more complex to install, but completely automatic, reverser for the year list.

Edit layout Standard Year List. Replace the line

<Actinic:Variable Name="YearLayout"/>

with

<actinic:block php="true">
echo " ";
$dates[] = '<Actinic:Variable Name="YearLayout" encoding="perl" selectable="false" />';
</actinic:block>

Click the "Click here to edit list layout settings", select the Edit Rows and Columns tab.
Delete the text in Middle Rows / First Item / Before
Delete the text in Middle Rows / First Item / After
Set No of Items / Last Row to be 1
In Last Row / Before Row add the code

<actinic:block php="true">
$dates = array_reverse($dates);
foreach($dates as $thisdate)
	{
	echo "<option>$thisdate</option>";
	}
$dates = array();
</actinic:block>

Now the years appear reversed.

[NormanRouxel]

And here's a Partial Site Design Snapshot that installs the above.

[mediacat]

Thanks a lot Norman. Note to all, who may also benefit from this. You still have to :

Edit layout Standard Year List
Delete the text in Middle Rows / First Item / Before
Delete the text in Middle Rows / First Item / After

Otherwise you get blank values at the top of the drop down. Thanks again Norman for your help, and to you too bruce. And the wonder that is partial design snapshots!

Ben

[NormanRouxel]

Ben,

Are you saying that after importing my partial design snapshot, you had to delete the two lines mentioned in #10?

That's weird as my design should leave these fields empty. I would have thought that importing a layout would alter the whole thing, not merge the new with the old.

[mediacat]

Norman,

Yes i did have to delete the two lines mentioned in #10. It did seem to merge the two together. Could that be because i'm still using 8.03 to your 8.04?

Ben

[NormanRouxel]

I doubt it. I'm not sure if this is a bug or designed behaviour. Anyone from Actinic know?

[cdicken]

My guess is that it's a bug - as I get this behaviour too.

Could you confirm that the before/after fields on the middle row of your layout are definitely not used?

[NormanRouxel]

Hi, Chris

I looked at the Act_DesignExport.txt within post #9's Partial Design Snapshot and these fields are definitely empty.