Targeting default or selected entry in a collection
  • Vote Up0Vote Down sbrekkensbrekken August 9

    I have a collection of articles and I'm trying to figure out a more elegant way to either show the latest article for when the user accesses "/articles" or the selected article if a user navigates to "/articles/some-article".

    Below is my current implementation, is there an easier way?

    <v:if param="id">
    <v:template filename="entry" />
    </v:if>
    <v:else>
    <v:collection path="entries" limit="1">
    <v:template filename="entry" />
    </v:collection>
    </v:else>

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down michaelmichael August 22

    That's pretty much how you do it. You check for the existence of a variable if it's a permalink page, if not show the first entry in the collection, which can be done with v:section

    <v:section path="entries">
    <v:template filename="entry" />
    </v:section>


    You could also just separate the permalink page into a new page: "/article/some-article"

  • Vote Up0Vote Down KevinKevin October 29

    That's basically how I do it as well.

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