grouping nodes by month

Nik Wahlberg 639 posts 1237 karma points MVP

Feb 03, 2010 @ 02:48

Hi Community,

I have been trying to create a grouping of events by using the Muncheun method. It's been producing varying results (see the this post). So, I thought, forget about that method, i'll just use a standard variable grouping by looking ar preceding-sibling. Unfortunately, that doesn't work either since I am trynig to group by a date field and simply using masks to format the data. Like this:

<xsl:for-each select="$eventNodes">
  <xsl:sort select="data [@alias='eventStartDate']"/>

  <xsl:variable name="lastMonth" select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data [@alias='eventStartDate'],'MMMM')" />
  !!!!! <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data [@alias='eventStartDate'],'MMMM')=$lastMonth)">
    <h2 class="dotted">
      <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data [@alias='eventStartDate'],'MMMM - yyyy')" />
    </h2>
    <div class="ctr-events">
      <ul>
    <xsl:for-each select="$eventNodes[umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data [@alias='eventStartDate'],'MMMM')=$lastMonth]">
      <xsl:sort select="data [@alias='eventStartDate']"/>

            <li>
              <div class="event_date_cal">
                <span class="event_date_cal_day">
                  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data [@alias=$groupByAlias], 'ddd')"/>
                </span>
                <span class="event_date_cal_month">
                  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data [@alias=$groupByAlias], ' d')"/>
                </span>
              </div>
              <div class="info">
                <div class="title">
                  <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
                    <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                  </a>
                </div>
                <span class="location">
                  Location:
                  <span class="bold">
                    <xsl:value-of select="data [@alias = 'eventPrimaryLocation']"/>
                  </span>
                </span>
              </div>
              <div class="clear"><xsl:text> </xsl:text></div>
            </li>

    </xsl:for-each>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

!!!! = not working

The grouping doesn't work since preceding-sibling::umbraco.library.... doesn't work syntactically.

So, my question is, has anyone successfully grouped nodes by month/year using XSLT? If so, would you mind sharing it here?

Thanks!

-- Nik

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Tommy Poulsen 514 posts 708 karma points

Feb 03, 2010 @ 07:23

Hi Nik, I'm using grouping by date by the Munchean method on a couple of sites. My approach is this:

http://blackpoint.dk/umbraco-workbench.aspx?Snippet=/umbraco-workbench/xslt/grouping--distinct-values.aspx

In this example I'm using a formatted date string as the key to group from, but you have any option. If you cannot work it out, I can try to adapt the method to your purpose - just let me know. Now I have to take the kids to kindergarden...

>Tommy

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2800 posts 8791 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Feb 03, 2010 @ 08:59

Hi Nik,

I can not test if this works for you, but the syntax for doing what you want is wrong - you need to specify the element name after an axis, so to correct the line you're having trouble with, do:

<xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::node[umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data [@alias='eventStartDate'],'MMMM')=$lastMonth])">

("If there's not a preceding sibling named node, having ..... ")

/Chriztian

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Nik Wahlberg 639 posts 1237 karma points MVP

Feb 03, 2010 @ 14:51

Hi,

@Tommy, the strange this is I CAN get it to work in dev but not production. So weird, and I actually use that grouping on other macros a swell (by month/year). I've abandoned this for now as I have to move on. I'll dig in deeper using this method at later time to see if I can figure it out.

@Chriztian, thanks! I think that is exactly what my problem is. I'll give it a test and let you know. Appreciate the insight!

Best,
Nik

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Connie DeCinko 931 posts 1160 karma points

May 04, 2011 @ 17:51

Not meaning to hijaak this thread, but I don't see that there was a resolution. Below is my latest attempt. The code works great for content below currentpage but fails for content in sibling nodes. I am getting every node for the entire site.

  <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/preceding-sibling::* | $currentPage/following-sibling::* [@isDoc][(generate-id()=generate-id(key('years', Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:year(publicationDate))[1]))]">
    <xsl:sort select="publicationDate" order="descending"/>

    <h3><strong><xsl:value-of select="Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:year(publicationDate)"/></strong></h3>
    
    <xsl:for-each select="key('years',Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:year(publicationDate)) [(generate-id()=generate-id(key('months', Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:monthname(publicationDate))[1]))]">
      <xsl:sort select="publicationDate" order="descending"/>

      <div style="margin-left:10px;">
        <h3><xsl:value-of select="Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:monthname(publicationDate)"/></h3>
    
        <xsl:for-each select="key('months',Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:monthname(publicationDate))">
          <xsl:sort select="publicationDate" order="descending"/>

          <div style="margin-left:10px;">
            <div style="width:64px; float:left;"><xsl:value-of select="Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:formatdate(publicationDate,'MM/dd/yy')"/></div>
              <div style="margin-left: 64px;"><p><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                </p></div>
            </div>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </div>
    </xsl:for-each>
    <br />
  </xsl:for-each>

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jayanthi 66 posts 86 karma points

Sep 07, 2011 @ 17:24

Hi all,

I am trying to categorize or group my press releases based on the year of publishing.When i am using key 'year' (i.e; using formatdatetime )the results are not coming. and when using key 'uniquedate' duplicate years are appearing,can anyone let me know what is the error?

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:key name="uniqueDate" match="PressRelease" use="pressPublishDate"/>
<xsl:key name="year" match="PressRelease" use="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(pressPublishDate,'YYYY')"/>
<xsl:key name="kNewsByY" match="PressRelease" use="Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:year(pressPublishDate)" />

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/child::*[generate-id() = generate-id(key('year', umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(pressPublishDate,'YYYY'))[1])]">
<xsl:value-of select="substring(pressPublishDate, 1, 4)"/>

      <xsl:value-of select="substring(pressPublishDate, 1,4)"/>
      <br/>
    </xsl:for-each>-->

</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="PressRelease" mode="PressRelease">
    <xsl:variable name="PublishDate">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring(pressPublishDate, 1, 4)" />
    </xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="DivId" select="concat('Div',$PublishDate)" />

    <li>
      <xsl:attribute name="id">
        <xsl:if test="$PublishDate = '2010'">
          <xsl:text>current</xsl:text>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:attribute>

</xsl:template>

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