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Galen King

21 Dec, 2010 09:07 PM via web

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Hey guys,

Thanks for adding request.uri, that's awesome.

I've now got another issue.

I thought I'd be able to offer a list of alternative pages on my error page likes this:

{{ request.uri | split: '/' | last | assign_to: 'errorpath' }}

{{ errorpath | item_from_path | assign_to: 'altpages' }}

{% if altpages.size > 0 %}
    <h3>Perhaps you were looking for {% if altpages.size > 1 %}one of {% endif %}the following page{% if altpages.size > 1 %}s{% endif %}</h3>

    <ul>
        {% for page in altpages %}
        <li>{{ page | link_to_item_with_widont }}</li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% endif %}

But it seems there are a couple reasons why this won't work.

1. item_from_path only returns a single item; not multiple matching items in an array
   
2. doesn't seem to look in blog articles; only pages

There are two things that would make Harmony even better:

1. items_from_path object filter that returns a collection of pages/articles
   
2. item_from_{fieldname} or, perhaps more practical with liquid, search: {fieldname}, {value} which would enable you to search on any field

I also think the site object should contain ALL pages AND articles; I think it just returns pages at present which makes it impossible to iterate through every "page" on a site for the likes of sitemaps etc.

Hope this makes sense. Keen to hear your thoughts.

Cheers,

Galen

1. 2 Posted by John Nunemaker on 30 Dec, 2010 05:55 PM

   

   Galen,
   All of the things you are doing revolve around us having a better way to search through content. Search, the way we want to do it, is a beast of a feature and is most likely a ways off.

   item_from_path should find any item in the system by path no matter the type -- blog, blog post, page, etc.

   Are you working on a sitemap or a more friendly error page? Our friends at Collective Idea have blogged about how they created their sitemap here:

   http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2010/06/14/sitemapxml-in-ha...

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