Hmm, not sure if I completely understood. Can you give an visual example to clarify. Draw your content tree (or part of it) and show us what output is required on what page?

Looking forward to your info.

Cheers,

/Dirk

Hi Dirk,

Yes it was a bit murky. Let me try to draw my content tree.

- Home
- Products
- News
- News Item 1, Dec 2
- News Item 2, Nov 4
- News Item 3, Oct 6
- News Item 4, Jul 8
- News Item 6, May 15
- Contact

I have a top menu that is generated by an Xslt script. What I would like to achieve is to display the node named "News Item 1, Dec 2" when I press the menu item "News" in my top level navigation menu. 

When I add a new news item then it will be placed at the top of the node tree below the "News" node. I always want to display the newest node below the "News" node when I navigate to the "News" node.

Is that more clear?

Thanks,
RasB

It's a kind of sorting:

<xsl:for-each select="node[@nodeTypeAlias='NewsItem']">
  <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending"></xsl:sort>

The sort parameter can also be a genereric property

hth, Thomas

if I have understood correctly you only want the first node so you will also need something like this within your for-each:

[code]

<xsl:for-each select="node[@nodeTypeAlias='NewsItem']">
  <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending"></xsl:sort>
        <xsl:if test="position()&lt;= 1">

[/code]

Change the number 1 to the number of items you want displayed.

Paul

Formatted incorrectly - 2nd attempt:

<xsl:for-each select="node[@nodeTypeAlias='NewsItem']">

  <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending"></xsl:sort>

        <xsl:if test="position()&lt;= 3">

Well... I almost found what I was looking for.

umbracoRedirect actually does almost exactly what I want. I set the value of umbracoRedirect on my "News" node to the value of "News Item 1, Dec 2". I can do this manually for now.

But what I really wanted was an umbracoRedirectToFirstChild, that would automatically just redirect to the latest node added or based on some criteria as sorting or a datefield.

/RasB

Rasb,

I think what these other guys are saying is that you can use the sort and then redirect to that page like this:

<xsl:for-each select="node[@nodeTypeAlias='NewsItem']">

  <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending"></xsl:sort>

        <xsl:if test="position()= 1">

<script type="text/javascript">

window.location = <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(./@id)" />;

</script>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:for-each>

Then you would just put this macro on your news page and it would redirect to the first news item. 

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