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sdfsfm 70 posts 94 karma points

Aug 03, 2010 @ 13:35

Hi I'm trying to show the lastest news item [doctype NewsItem] on all pages, but its currently not working and if possible show a featured news item is the they dont want the lastest..

my code looks like this

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="documentTypeAlias" select="string('NewsItem')"/>
    
<xsl:template match="/">
 
  <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [name() = $documentTypeAlias and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
    
  <xsl:sort select="current()/data[@alias='newsItem']"  order="descending" />
    
    <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= 1 ">
  
 <xsl:value-of select="./data [@alias = 'NewsItem']"  disable-output-escaping="yes"  />

    <h2><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}" ><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a></h2>
    <p class="date"><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(./newsDate, 'd MMMM, yyyy')"/></p>
    <p><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(umbraco.library:StripHtml(./newsBodyText), 100,'...')"  /></p>
    <p class="bg-btnGreen"><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}" title="" class="btn btnGreen">Continue reading</a></p>  
  
</xsl:if>
    

</xsl:for-each>

Every section i have this marco on is blank

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Sascha Wolter 615 posts 1101 karma points

Aug 03, 2010 @ 14:11
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Hi Ivor,

try the following:

instead of
```
<xsl:sort select="current()/data[@alias='newsItem']"  order="descending" />
```
use
```
<xsl:sort select="@createDate"  order="descending" />
```
That orders the news items by their creation date in descending order.

Then use position() = 1 in your test, the index starts at 1 (and not 0, so <1 will never be true).

Instead of
```
<xsl:value-of select="./data [@alias = 'NewsItem']"  disable-output-escaping="yes"  />
```
you should use
```
<xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" />
```
to get the name of the node in Umbraco.

You can use
```
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [name() = $documentTypeAlias and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
```
only if all the news items are actually below the node that you are using this script on. If they are not you should probably introduce some variable like this: <xsl:variable name="newsItemsRoot" value="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(your-root-node-id)" />, then you can use
```
<xsl:for-each select="$newsItemsRoot/* [name() = $documentTypeAlias and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
```
to get a list of all news items.

If your client wants a favourite news item to be shown you need to wrap this with a choose statement, check if a fav news item is set and if so use that instead.

Hope that helps,

Sascha
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sdfsfm 70 posts 94 karma points

Aug 03, 2010 @ 15:26

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Hi Sacha, for some weird reason my posts was duplicated. Matt Brailsofrd help me with my problem in the other post

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Sascha Wolter 615 posts 1101 karma points

Aug 03, 2010 @ 15:41

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No worries, I've seen that 10 seconds after I posted this. ;)

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