Commented_at Formatting

Summary:

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Commented_at Formatting

Ashe 28 Oct 2009 16:40

I'm laying out a page-based forum for a (currently private) site, and I've reached a little stumbling block with commented_at — in that %%commented_at%% works, but %%commented_at|pick your format%% doesn't display anything at all, even for pages with comments. It'll give me the right %%comments%% and %%commented_by%% values, so I know it's drawing from the correct page, and %%updated_at|any given format%% works, so it's not all dates.

But then I tried the code here: http://rhapsody.wikidot.com/test:listpages… and everything worked fine. Apparently I can't duplicate the bug on a public page. I've since tried a few more permutations in the original buggy page, including copying code back out of the demonstrably-working rhapsody site… and am still at a loss.

It doesn't seem to be a function of the page source, and that's about all I can figure.

Anyone else have ideas?

Re: Commented_at Formatting

Ashe 28 Oct 2009 16:42

Hold that thought. Lemme look at something else…

Re: Commented_at Formatting

Ashe 28 Oct 2009 17:02

Here's a screenshot of the page in question:

http://rhapsody.wdfiles.com/local--files/test:listpages/comment_crop.jpg

The board page was created 73 days ago.

• 'Comments' should say 13 days ago
• 'Test' was coincidentally created 73 days ago

The 7 Sep 2009, 09:02 -0-400 commented_at sans custom formatting is correct for the last comment on 'Test', 51 days ago.

I'm guessing something is getting crossed when the live _template and ListPages do their substitutions, i.e. it's putting in this-current-page stamps and not ListPage-retrieved stamps. This might also relate to why the rhapsody page is working as it should — it doesn't have the _template step!

Yes, no, maybe?

Re: Commented_at Formatting

suef 28 Oct 2009 19:54

Hi Ashe,

I don't really know if this will help, but it's worth a try. I had similar behaviour the other day with a listpages inside a _template file, but for %%created_at|formatting%%. I never worked out exactly what was going on, but I found a workaround. I put the offending listpages code into an [[include]] file and included it (called it) from the _template file. Let me know if you don't understand any of what I just said and I'll try to explain a bit better. Personally, I think there is a bug here somewhere.

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Sue

Last edited on 28 Oct 2009 19:55 by suef + Show more

Re: Commented_at Formatting

Ashe 28 Oct 2009 20:40

I get what you're saying; I'll give it a shot!

It does sound like there's an underlying bug, though.

Re: Commented_at Formatting

Ashe 30 Oct 2009 12:19

The include isn't even doing it for me, where I currently have

[[module ListPages category="thread" parent="%%fullname%%" order="updated_at desc" perPage="50"]]
[[table style="width:100%; border-bottom:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);"]]
[[include include:thread-list]]
[[/table]] 
[[/module]]

in the _template and

[[row]]
      [[cell style="width:5em;"]] [[iftags _sticky]]**sticky**[[/iftags]] [[iftags _closed]]//closed//[[/iftags]] [[/cell]]
      [[cell style="font-weight:bold;"]] %%title_linked%% [[/cell]]
      [[cell style="width:15em; text-align:center;"]] %%author%% [[/cell]]
      [[cell style="width:10em; text-align:center;" ]] %%created_at|%O ago%% [[/cell]]
      [[cell style="width:3em; text-align:center;"]] %%comments%% [[/cell]]
      [[cell style="width:10em; text-align:center;"]] %%commented_at|%O ago%% [[/cell]]
[[/row]]

in the included page. It's still treating formatted dates like they belong to the containing board page.

Re: Commented_at Formatting

pieterh 30 Oct 2009 13:00

Do you have a live example somewhere we can look at?

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Re: Commented_at Formatting

Ashe 30 Oct 2009 19:15

Good point — now I can set that up.

Example page: http://rhapsody.wikidot.com/board:test

Corresponding Template: http://rhapsody.wikidot.com/board:_template

Re: Commented_at Formatting

pieterh 30 Oct 2009 19:38

It looks like with and without include give the same results…. ?

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Re: Commented_at Formatting

Ashe 30 Oct 2009 20:48

They do, where suef had above suggested they might not.

Last edited on 30 Oct 2009 20:54 by Ashe + Show more

Re: Commented_at Formatting

suef 31 Oct 2009 00:48

This is what I started writing, to document the problems I was experiencing:

listpages in _template bug?

I'm updating my listpages to use the new syntax. I'm having problems with using %%created_at|format%%.

If I display the _template file in the browser, it's all OK, but when the template is used by the parent and it therefore has an actual blog post to display, then the dates screw up in the listpages and they inherit the date of the blog post.

I thought it might be to do with having more than one listpages module on a page. I tried urlAttrPrefix on all the listpages on that page, but it still didn't work.

This code is in a _template file:

[[module ListPages category="blog" limit="3"  separate="true"]]
* %%title_linked%% //%%created_at|%d %B %Y% T%%//
[[/module]]

All 3 blog post titles displayed have the same date on them ie the date of the blog post being currently displayed in the main content area. It all worked fine before upgrading the syntax.

Here is a sequence of screenshots:

This is the _template file. Notice the timestamps on the three recent posts in the left column.

This is the blog start page. The timestamps are the same as in the first screenshot. See the post on the right and its timestamp. All's well so far.

This is what you get when you click on the top blog post title in "recent posts" in the second screenshot. It uses the _template to display the "third post" in the main content area. Notice the timestamps. They are all the same as the time on the blog post currently being displayed (the "third post").

A workaround for my problem was to put the recent posts listpages code into an [[include]] file and call it into the _template file.

Pieter, you may take a look at my site blogtest if you wish.

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Last edited on 31 Oct 2009 00:51 by suef + Show more

Re: Commented_at Formatting

suef 14 Nov 2009 22:52

Has anyone been able to get to the bottom of this yet? Any further ideas about what's going on here?

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Sue

Re: Commented_at Formatting

Timothy Foster 15 Nov 2009 00:16

I have also seen this problem and had made a post here about it. My hypothesis is that the %%created_at%% and %%updated_at%% variables respond solely to the _template page if they are called there regardless of being within ListPages or even coming from an included page.

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Re: Commented_at Formatting

pieterh 15 Nov 2009 13:26

@Sue, sorry, we've noted the problem but not had time to investigate. Will bump it up in priority.

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Re: Commented_at Formatting

suef 16 Nov 2009 18:20

Thanks, Pieter. If there's anything I can do to help, just ask.

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Sue

Re: Commented_at Formatting

Ashe 16 Nov 2009 21:49

@Timothy:

I think you're partially correct. At least in my attempts, %%updated_at%% by itself worked as expected / intended (and is what I'm using for the moment). It only resorted to the _template page when I tried to attach a custom format. In case of formatted dates, therefore, it's responding solely or primarily to the _template.