Re: Change in archive structure

I doubt you'll need any class files, just add your macro to 
roller/trunk/app/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/velocity/weblog.vm.  Note a 
macro may not be useful if users would want to heavily customize it (add 
#classes or use different colors, etc., or render it differently based 
on theme being used.)--then again, maybe parameters can be added for 
that functionality in the future if users would want.  I haven't 
analyzed it but I suspect most (useful) macros are for things that don't 
have much/any UI customization to them -- e.g., HTML <head/> elements.

What you wish to contribute might be better in JavaScript--I don't know 
whether Velocity will work for dynamically creating JavaScript (I would 
think so but haven't looked into it.)

Glen

On 12/09/2013 11:44 PM, Gaurav wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking at this and was thinking of sorting articles by date in 
> velocity, but facing some difficulty in it. Can you recommend me how 
> to go with this and if I have to make new class file and write some 
> code for this, where I have to write all this. I will be thankful if 
> you can get me some help or any resources in roller of study its 
> structure.
>
> Thanks
> Gaurav
>
> On Tuesday 10 December 2013 07:03 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
>> Yes, enter a JIRA and attach a patch (svn diff -u > myPatch.patch 
>> will do).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Glen
>>
>> On 12/09/2013 03:47 AM, Gaurav wrote:
>>> Hello Glen,
>>>
>>> Actually, you are right about the importance of this, as users 
>>> usually searchby date for any blog, unless you are blogging about a 
>>> particular topic on a certain day of the week.
>>> I was also thinking about the tree structure in side menu, rather 
>>> than a page. I can contribute to this and make a new macro so, user 
>>> can include that in their side menu. Just want to know what steps I 
>>> have to follow to add this enhancement/patch to Roller. Do I have to 
>>> file any JIRA ? Can you please guide me into this.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Gaurav
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday 07 December 2013 07:20 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
>>>> Hmm, I might argue that the date a blog article is posted is of 
>>>> secondary importance to its content, e.g., I group my blog entries 
>>>> by subject: http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/blog_article_index, 
>>>> date is largely irrelevant.  Wouldn't your tree view be more useful 
>>>> if it was broken up by category and blog articles underneath 
>>>> instead of by dates?
>>>>
>>>> Another problem with emphasizing dates is that they make blogs look 
>>>> obsolete more quickly, because sometimes months go by at a time 
>>>> before someone blogs again, and a date archive then makes the blog 
>>>> look inactive.  Having lists by category gives a blog a much longer 
>>>> shelf life, and doesn't "punish" a blogger who maintains his older 
>>>> entries instead of just entering in new entries.
>>>>
>>>> The blog archive page is probably seldom used today (you may be 
>>>> better off removing it), the tree view you're contemplating might 
>>>> be better in a side menu of a blog (just like here: 
>>>> http://coheigea.blogspot.com/ [1]).  A macro that would provide the 
>>>> data allowing something like [1] to be constructed would be a nice 
>>>> enhancement to Roller (but, actually, we may already be able to 
>>>> support that--I'm not sure.)  Patches to Roller JIRA welcome.
>>>>
>>>> The current archive page *could* be useful if you're always 
>>>> blogging about a particular topic on a certain day of the week. If 
>>>> Wednesdays you're always blogging about X and Fridays always Y a 
>>>> calendar view does a better job of allowing someone to get to all 
>>>> "X" or "Y" articles better than the tree view in [1].
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Glen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/06/2013 08:45 AM, Gaurav wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> The archives which are now show as in calender. There are some 
>>>>> shortcoming of that is we can't see the whole list of blogs month 
>>>>> and year wise.
>>>>> There can have some sort of tree structure or we can have some 
>>>>> different macro, so we can redesign the archives page as user want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tree Structure
>>>>>
>>>>> >2013
>>>>>     >Jan
>>>>>         >Blog1
>>>>>         >Blog2
>>>>>     >March
>>>>> >2013
>>>>>     >April
>>>>>         >Blg4
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Gaurav
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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