Re: Date summarising
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2005
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 62685
interpreted = N
texte = Steve Craig wrote: > Etc etc, hopefully you get the idea. The dates are stored as dd/mm/yyyy in > the db. I just can't get my head round how to summarise the date variable > into blocks of months, if that makes sense. The easiest thing to do is to make a one-time adjustment to the database to store the year, month, and day in seperate columns. Whether you make this in addition to the existing column or as a replacement depends on how many templates update this field. However, I'm assuming that you are currently storing the date value as a number, not as a string (since you cannot sort by date with a string that is not in ISO format, e.g. [CC]YY/MM/DD). You could also return the records in date order and then use the [founditems] loop to print out the Month header iff it is not the same as the last one you printed out. Something like this (not tested): [text show=f]thismonth=[/text][!]will be set in the loop[/!] [search ....in date order...] [founditems] [if "[thismonth]" ! "[format Days_To_Date %B %Y][datefield][/format]"] [then] [text show=t]thismonth=[format Days_To_Date %B %Y][datefield][/format][/text] [/then] [/if] .... If you want any HTML formatting for the month lines, include that wrapped around the second [text] tag (I'm thinking things line
). HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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Steve Craig wrote: > Etc etc, hopefully you get the idea. The dates are stored as dd/mm/yyyy in > the db. I just can't get my head round how to summarise the date variable > into blocks of months, if that makes sense. The easiest thing to do is to make a one-time adjustment to the database to store the year, month, and day in seperate columns. Whether you make this in addition to the existing column or as a replacement depends on how many templates update this field. However, I'm assuming that you are currently storing the date value as a number, not as a string (since you cannot sort by date with a string that is not in ISO format, e.g. [CC]YY/MM/DD). You could also return the records in date order and then use the [founditems] loop to print out the Month header iff it is not the same as the last one you printed out. Something like this (not tested): [text show=f]thismonth=[/text][!]will be set in the loop[/!] [search ....in date order...] [founditems] [if "[thismonth]" ! "[format Days_To_Date %B %Y][datefield][/format]"] [then] [text show=t]thismonth=[format Days_To_Date %B %Y][datefield][/format][/text] [/then] [/if] .... If you want any HTML formatting for the month lines, include that wrapped around the second [text] tag (I'm thinking things line ). HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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