When I specify a past date it simply uses todays date and places my entry at the top of the list, but I would like to place them at the bottom as they should have been posted months ago.
I am posting a new news article. I would like this article to be posted with a date which is in the past and be placed before my latest articles (so it appears to be an old article). However when I specify the old date it is simply posting the article using todays date and placing it at the top of the article list.
Check you're xslt to see the order the it's being sorted on. This directly after you're for-each loop first statement. Make sure it's being sorted on @updateDate or whichever date you would like to sort on. Are you using Publish At date or a custom newsDate?
For many websites I've developed, I used my own News implementation, which has a property called 'Past Date'.
With this property the customer is able to select a data in the past (for instance when transfering news from the old site to the new one). You should ask a developer to do something like this for you...
Then the developer should implement this extra property in the output (like XSLT or .NET).
Post in the past?
Is it possible to make a post in the past?
When I specify a past date it simply uses todays date and places my entry at the top of the list, but I would like to place them at the bottom as they should have been posted months ago.
Thanks in advance!
Could you elaborate a bit more? What are you trying to accomplish?
Sorry, sure.
I am posting a new news article. I would like this article to be posted with a date which is in the past and be placed before my latest articles (so it appears to be an old article). However when I specify the old date it is simply posting the article using todays date and placing it at the top of the article list.
Hope this makes sense!
Check you're xslt to see the order the it's being sorted on. This directly after you're for-each loop first statement. Make sure it's being sorted on @updateDate or whichever date you would like to sort on. Are you using Publish At date or a custom newsDate?
<xsl:sort select="@updateDate" order="descending"/>
or
<xsl:sort select="./data [@alias='newsDate']" order="descending"/>
-Chris
Sorry Chris im not a developer, just a user publishing posts via the front end system
Are you using a package like blog 4 umbraco or cws for your posts? Or is this a custom implementation?
-Chris
Nick,
For many websites I've developed, I used my own News implementation, which has a property called 'Past Date'.
With this property the customer is able to select a data in the past (for instance when transfering news from the old site to the new one). You should ask a developer to do something like this for you...
Then the developer should implement this extra property in the output (like XSLT or .NET).
Thanks for your help, I will pass this on!
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