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steelej

Apr 29, 2013 @ 03:49 PM

For an emergency alert page, I'm trying to produce a default date and text when no update to the alert has been entered. I'm grabbing the current date successfully but, for reasons unknown to me, my if/else statement is not working. The if-statement in the script works--if the date node has a value. If no value for date is present, the else statement is not working.

I'd appreciate any help.

Jim

• script.txt 1.15 KB
• page.xml 2.25 KB

1. 1 Posted by Ryan Griffith on Apr 29, 2013 @ 07:02 PM

   

   Hi Jim,

   There are a few items I noticed with your Format that may be causing problems:

   • The check to see if there are $updates is inside of your #foreach, so this means there will always be at least one and the else portion of the conditional will never fire.
   • You are creating a current date variable every time the #foreach iterates; it would be much more efficient to create this variable once before looping and simply re-use it.

   Try the following Format as a starting point and let me know how it works out for you:

   #set ($updates = $_XPathTool.selectNodes($contentRoot, "/system-index-block/calling-page/system-page/system-data-structure/updates/item[date!=''] "))
   
   <h2>Updates</h2>
               
   #if ( $updates.size() < 1 )
     #set ($dateTime = $_DateTool.getDate())
     <h3>${_DateTool.format("MMMM dd, yyyy", $dateTime)}</h3>
     <p>There are no updates at this time.</p>
   #else      
     #foreach ($update in $updates)
       #set ($date = $update.getChild("date").value)
       #set ( $datec = $_DateTool.toDate("MM-d-yyyy","$date") )
       #set ( $newDateText = $_DateTool.format("MMMM dd, yyyy", $datec) )
       #set ($content = $update.getChild("content"))
   
       <h3>${newDateText}</h3>
     
       <p>$_SerializerTool.serialize($content, true)</p>
   
       <hr />
             
     #end
   #end
   

   Please let me know if you have any questions.

   Thanks

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2. 2 Posted by steelej on Apr 29, 2013 @ 08:00 PM

   

   Thanks Ryan. That makes sense and works.

   Jim

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3. 3 Posted by Ryan Griffith on Apr 29, 2013 @ 09:02 PM

   

   Not a problem at all, Jim, thank you for following up. I am glad to hear that did the trick.

   Have a great day!

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4. Ryan Griffith closed this discussion on Apr 29, 2013 @ 09:02 PM.