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Tony Jose Ponti

15 Jul, 2015 04:25 PM

Hello,
How can I make the following Velocity script for archiving display one level deeper. Currently, it provides me with a link the parent folder's index:
<a href="site://mysite/newsfolder/newsCfolder/2015folder/indexpage">2015</a>. But I'm looking for: <a href="site://mysite/newsfolder/newsCfolder/2015folder/07folder/indexpage">July</a>.

----structure----

+ formsfolder
- newsfolder
   + newsAfolder
   + newsBfolder
   - newsCfolder
      - 2015folder
                + 07folder (July)
                   index
         + 08folder (August)
       indexpage
+ reportsfolder

----script----

<br/><p><strong>Archives</strong>

       #set($parentFolder = $_.locatePage($currentPagePath).parentFolder)

        #set($folders = $parentFolder.children)
        #set($sortedFolders = $_SortTool.sort($folders, "name"))

        #foreach($folderItem in [1..$sortedFolders.size()])
            #set($arrayIndex = $sortedFolders.size() - $foreach.count)
            #if($sortedFolders[$arrayIndex].children)
                #set($folder = $sortedFolders[$arrayIndex])

               #set($folderLink = $_EscapeTool.xml($folder.link))
                | <a href="${folderLink}/index" title="$folder.metadata.title Archived TDI@Work Newletter">$folder.metadata.title</a>
            #end
        #end

1. 1 Posted by Ryan Griffith on 15 Jul, 2015 08:43 PM

   

   Hi Tony,

   You would need to add an additional #foreach within your existing #foreach that loops over the children of the current folder in the loop, or, what I would recommend, is create a macro that accepts a folder node and loops over it's children, while calling itself again. This way you can use recursion to handle traversing the nesting, rather than hardcoding nested #foreach loops which can be problematic and redundant.

   Also, I wanted to note that if you are running Cascade 7.10.1 or newer, you can replace the following line:

   #set($parentFolder = $_.locatePage($currentPagePath).parentFolder)
   

   with:

   #set($parentFolder = $currentPage.parentFolder)
   

   Please let me know if you have any questions.

   Thanks!

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2. 2 Posted by Tony Jose Ponti on 20 Jul, 2015 02:53 PM

   

   Okay. Thank you.

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3. 3 Posted by Ryan Griffith on 20 Jul, 2015 03:35 PM

   

   Not a problem at all, Tony, glad to hear I was able to help out.

   I'm going to go ahead and close this discussion, please feel free to comment or reply to re-open if you have any additional questions.

   Have a great day!

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4. Ryan Griffith closed this discussion on 20 Jul, 2015 03:35 PM.