Assset List - Group by Month

Squiz Matrix Support
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I've read the manual and while you can group by date (the whole date) I cannot work out if you can group by month


e.g.



January

Assets with dates in Jan

February

Assets with dates in Feb

etc.



Is it possible ?



cheers

Richard

2

Create a Metadata field that only has the month value in it and then group by that, perhaps?
3

I was trying reuse something that Matrix already tracks…should I make this a feature request.

4

You can use the date attribute as the default value for the metadata field -- except you just isolate the month value (and year, perhaps?)
5

SO I'd apply metadata to the assets I want with the Month issolated, and then group by month/year ?

6

Yes, that would be my recommendation.
7

It works - sort off. Months get listed alphabetically. There does not appear to be away around it… :frowning:



R

8

[quote]It works - sort off. Months get listed alphabetically. There does not appear to be away around it… :frowning:


R[/quote]



How are you groups being sorted?

9

I set a metadata item to just have the name of the month and this can only be sorted Asc or Desc.

10

If you're using the php date format already, you could just prepend the numbers of the month to the field:

    m F


If you don't want the number to display, you could try wrapping it in a span, and hiding with HTML:

    \<\s\p\a\n\>m\<\/\s\p\a\n\>F


that may fix the sorting, but I haven't tested it.
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    \<\s\p\a\n\>m\<\/\s\p\a\n\>F

thanks! I will have a play around with that and see how I get on. Although it is not screen-reader friendly.