[Zope-CMF] Re: How do I use effective and expiration date?

[Mark Langkau]

Hi Seb,

I had forgotten about that. Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark

seb bacon wrote:

> There is also an 'Access inactive portal content' permission which you
> can set on a per-role basis.
>
> seb
>
> Carl Rendell wrote:
> >>
> >> Message: 4
> >> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:04:14 -0600
> >> From: Mark Langkau <mark.langkau@pbmplus.com>
> >> To: zope-cmf@zope.org
> >> Subject: [Zope-CMF] How do I use effective and expiration date?
> >>
> >> Does anyone have examples of using the effective_date and
> >> expiration_date metadata items for filtering content? I'm using the
> >> default ZPT skins, Zope 2.4.3,  CMF 1.2, and Python 2.1.1 on Linux.
> >>
> >> For example, how would I "expire" a news item, yet allow it to still
> >> show up when a user clicks the "news" menu link? I'm learning to use the
> >> zpt skins, but so far the skins are winning ;-)  I need to filter on
> >> dates, but I'm not sure how to do it with ZPT.
> >>
> >> I would like all "published"' news items to show up when I click the
> >> "news" link in the top menu bar. But any news item with a metadata
> >> Expiration Date older than "today" should not show up in the news_box,
> >> or recent_news. I still want to keep all entries as published news
> >> items, so I don't want to "retract" the news item.
> >>
> >> I would also like to use the effective_date to "pre-load" some news or
> >> other content, but not have it viewable until some future date.
> >>
> >> Unless I'm missing something (probably very simple ;-), this doesn't
> >> seem to be turned on out of the box.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mark
> >
> >
> > I've run into this 'problem' when first using the CMF. The feature is
> > turned on out of the box, but if you are logged in and have sufficient
> > privilage to add and edit content, you'll see the content regardless of
> > effectivity date.
> >
> > It allows you to view the site 'as it will be' if you are editing. I use
> > two browsers, one that i'm logged into for editing, and one that i'm not
> > to see it as the user will see it.
> >
> > If you want to control the view of effectivity controlled items when
> > logged in. You can   set a publication rule on the portal_catalog search
> > to be sure you only view published items - we currently do this -
> >
> > <dtml-in "portal_catalog.searchResults( Type='News Item'
> >                                         , sort_on='Date'
> >                                         , sort_order='reverse'
> >                                         , review_state='published'
> >                                         , orphan=0
> >                                         )" size="4">
> >
> > However, if you want to filter items that have not reached the
> > effectivity date yet, or those that have 'expired' you'll need to filter
> > those with a <dtml-if> at the dtml level for those that are logged in.
> >
> > We do use effectivity a lot in our sites, and find it very effective.
>
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