Calendar Search Page - Group By not working for Keywords?

(Maks) #1

Hi,


I've now got my Calendar search page working nicely with a stored search but I've run into another issue: the "Group By" seems to work fine if I use for instance a text metadata field (there is a metadata schema applied to the Calendar assets I'm searching) but trying to use a Calendar asset keyword such as %event_start_date% does not appear to work, no grouping is done and the %group_name% keyword in the group body format just prints "%%".



Is there something special that needs to be done for grouping by Calendar keyword values using Calendar search page as opposed to the grouping settings in a normal Search page?



I'm pretty sure everything else is setup ok because as I said grouping by metadata field is working and the %group_total_child_asset_count% prints fine (although its the entire list count, because no grouping is happening).



thanks,

Maks.

Calendar search to group by event date?
(Chiranjivi Upreti) #2

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I've now got my Calendar search page working nicely with a stored search but I've run into another issue: the "Group By" seems to work fine if I use for instance a text metadata field (there is a metadata schema applied to the Calendar assets I'm searching) but trying to use a Calendar asset keyword such as %event_start_date% does not appear to work, no grouping is done and the %group_name% keyword in the group body format just prints "%%".



Is there something special that needs to be done for grouping by Calendar keyword values using Calendar search page as opposed to the grouping settings in a normal Search page?

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Hi Maks,



The grouping in Calendar Event Search page using the calendar event keywords (like instance_start_datetime, event_start_date, etc) is same as that in the normal search page.



Which Matrix version are you using btw? The very initial RC1 4.8.0 had few issues, all of which were fixed in 4.8.0 release. If you are using RC1 build then that might also be the reason.



Chiran

(Chiranjivi Upreti) #3

Hey Maks,


Are you entering the keyword with "%%" in the Group by screen? I just did that by mistake in my system and got into the same issue as you have mentioned here. You might wanna double check that your keyword is entered as event_start_date without "%%" in the "Group By" screen.



Chiran

(Maks) #4

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Hey Maks,



Are you entering the keyword with "%%" in the Group by screen? I just did that by mistake in my system and got into the same issue as you have mentioned here. You might wanna double check that your keyword is entered as event_start_date without "%%" in the "Group By" screen.



Chiran

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Ha! Yes I was, thanks that was indeed it!

I was misled by reading the section in: http://manuals.matrix.squizsuite.net/asset-listing/chapters/asset-grouping-screen


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Keyword: enter the keyword replacement to group the assets by. This can be useful when sorting Data Source Record Set assets, which do not expose their field values as attributes; for example, you could enter the %ds__recDocumentType% keyword replacement to sort assets by their Document type (Wordpad Documents, Email Messages, PDF Files etc).

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Might be worth making another small update in the docs to point this out for future users.



thanks again,

Maks.

(Chiranjivi Upreti) #5

[quote]
Ha! Yes I was, thanks that was indeed it!

I was misled by reading the section in: http://manuals.matrix.squizsuite.net/asset-listing/chapters/asset-grouping-screen



Might be worth making another small update in the docs to point this out for future users.



thanks again,

Maks.

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No worries.



Sure, we will correct that bit in the manuals to avoid any confusion in future. Thanks for pointing that out.



Chiran