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philippa

Mar 13 2008, 07:53 AM

Folks,

I'm having trouble using the MultiBlog and Extra Fields plugins together in a template. I want to sort an included blog's entries by one of its Extra Fields, "Release_Date."

I thought I might do this:

CODE

		<MTMultiBlogEntries include_blogs="52" sort_by="Release_Date">
			<MTExtraFields>
					<h4>
						<a href="http://www.filminfocus.com/focus-movies/<$MTLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a> -
						<span class="release-date">
							<MTFormatDate format="%B %d, %Y">
								 <$MTExtraFieldValue field="Release_Date"$>
							</MTFormatDate>
						</span>
					</h4>
			</MTExtraFields>
		</MTMultiBlogEntries>

But that generates a publishing error starting, "unknown column: Release_Date."

So I thought I might do this:

CODE

		<MTExtraFields>
			<MTMultiBlogEntries include_blogs="52" sort_by="Release_Date">
				<h4>
					<a href="http://www.filminfocus.com/focus-movies/<$MTLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a> -
					<span class="release-date">
						<MTFormatDate format="%B %d, %Y">
							 <$MTExtraFieldValue field="Release_Date"$>
						</MTFormatDate>
					</span>
				</h4>
			</MTMultiBlogEntries>
		</MTExtraFields>

But that generates the publishing error: "Build error in template 'Focus Movies by Release Date': Error in <MTExtraFields> tag: You used an 'MTExtraFields' tag outside of the context of an entry; perhaps you mistakenly placed it outside of an 'MTEntries' container?"

So, skeptically, I thought I might do this:

CODE

		<MTMultiBlogEntries include_blogs="52">
			<MTEntries sort_by="Release_Date">
				<MTExtraFields>
						<h4>
							<a href="http://www.filminfocus.com/focus-movies/<$MTLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a> -
							<span class="release-date">
								<MTFormatDate format="%B %d, %Y">
									 <$MTExtraFieldValue field="Release_Date"$>
								</MTFormatDate>
							</span>
						</h4>
				</MTExtraFields>
			</MTEntries>
		</MTMultiBlogEntries>

That publishes, but of course loops through all the entries once per entry. I get 8 results returned 8 times, rather than 8 results returned once.

Thanks very much for any help.

philippa

Mar 14 2008, 11:40 AM

Finally figured it out! I needed:

CODE

<MTMultiBlog include_blogs="52">
<MTEntries sort_by="Release_Date">
<MTExtraFields>
<h4>
<a href="http://www.filminfocus.com/focus-movies/<$MTLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a> -
<span class="release-date">
<MTFormatDate format="%B %d, %Y">
<$MTExtraFieldValue field="Release_Date"$>
</MTFormatDate>
</span>
</h4>
</MTExtraFields>
</MTEntries>
</MTMultiBlog>

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