Hi Ulu

I have just tried installing the blog on a 4.6.1 of Umbraco and here the archive seems to be working fine. On the archive page, that is a part of the standard installation there should be a macro that lists the archived posts on the page.

The macro is called "BlogFullArchive" - Does this exist on your page?

/Jan

Yes it says,

<div umb_macroalias="BlogFullArchive" ismacro="true" onresizestart="return false;" umbversionid="9885f15f-ba2d-4cc4-96f2-64d87cdef5af" umbpageid="1059" title="This is rendered content from macro" class="umbMacroHolder"><!-- startUmbMacro -->
<div id="archieve" xmlns:math="http://exslt.org/math"></div>
<!-- endUmbMacro --></div>

Ok, and how does your archive page look like on the site? Could you perhaps post a screendump?

/Jan

Sure. How do I attach it here?

The HTML is:

      <div id="content">
        <div class="post">
          <h2 class="title"><span>Archive</span></h2>

          <div id="test" style="color:white;">woop woop hejhje</div>
           <div class="entry">
              <p>
<div id="archieve" xmlns:math="http://exslt.org/math"></div>
</p>
         
           </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <!-- end div#content -->  

Hi Ulu

Yeah, the HTML is pretty empty....

There is an image icon in the forum editor right next to the "HTML" button. Second last item - once that it is clicked a dialouge will appear and allow you to upload the image.

Hope this helps.

/Jan

You see, there's a post there, it shows on the main page, but not in the archive.

Ok, if you go to the developer section could you then please paste the code from the BlogFullArchive.xslt file in here? I'm curious to see if it's written using the new or the old schema. In my 4.6.1 installation it works out of the box using the new schema without me having to change anything.

Did you install the blog package from within Umbraco or did you download it from our?

/Jan

Here you are:

Snippet

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:math="http://exslt.org/math"
xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">


    <xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

    <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
   
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <div id="archieve">

            <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::umbBlog/umbDateFolder">
                <xsl:sort select="number(@nodeName)" data-type="number" order="descending"/>
                <h3>
                    <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                </h3>
                <div class="tab">
                    <xsl:for-each select="./DateFolder">
                        <xsl:sort select="number(@nodeName)" data-type="number" order="descending"/>
                        <h4>
                            <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime( concat('01-', @nodeName , '-2010'), 'MMMM' )"/>
                        </h4>
                        <ul>
                            <xsl:for-each select=".//umbBlogPost">
                                <li>
                                    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
                                        <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                                    </a>
                                    <br/>
                                    <small>
                                        Posted: <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:LongDate(PostDate)"/>
                                        By: <xsl:value-of select="@writerName"/>
                                    </small>
                                </li>

                            </xsl:for-each>
                        </ul>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </div>

            </xsl:for-each>
        </div>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I'm using the built-in blog, installed with the starter kit at the end of the Umbraco installation.

Try changing this line

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::umbBlog/umbDateFolder">

to

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::Blog/DateFolder">

This is what the line looks like in my XSLT. A bit puzzled that there is a difference though?...But try it out :-)

Hope this helps.

/Jan

So, I don't understand anything of this xslt thingy, but I see it says

select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::umbBlog/umbDateFolder"

Now, the DateFolder page is not an ansector of the Archive page. Maybe the problem is that it's a wrong page to put the macro on?

Doesn't work..

I just spotted that there are more differences between our XSLT files...

Here you see my complete XSLT. Try using this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:math="http://exslt.org/math"
xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
xmlns:yourprefix="urn:my-scripts"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxml yourprefix umbraco.library">


    <xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

    <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

    <msxsl:script implements-prefix='yourprefix' language='CSharp'>
        <![CDATA[
public string monthName(int monthNum)
{
DateTime date = new DateTime(1,monthNum,1);
return date.ToString("MMMM");
}
]]>

    </msxsl:script>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <div id="archieve">

            <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::Blog/DateFolder">
                <xsl:sort select="number(@nodeName)" data-type="number" order="descending"/>
                <h3>
                    <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                </h3>
                <div class="tab">
                    <xsl:for-each select="./DateFolder">
                        <xsl:sort select="number(@nodeName)" data-type="number" order="descending"/>
                        <h4>
                            <xsl:value-of select="yourprefix:monthName(number(@nodeName))"/>
                        </h4>
                        <ul>
                            <xsl:for-each select=".//BlogPost">
                                <li>
                                    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
                                        <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                                    </a>
                                    <br/>
                                    <small>
                                        Posted: <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:LongDate(PostDate)"/>
                                        By: <xsl:value-of select="@writerName"/>
                                    </small>
                                </li>

                            </xsl:for-each>
                        </ul>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </div>

            </xsl:for-each>
        </div>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

/Jan

No luck..

what does $currentPage/ancestor-or-self::Blog/DateFolder mean? I got that Blog and DateFolder are document types, but what's $currentPage/ancestor-or-self and how do I change it so that it doesn't depend on the current page?

Gotta sleep on it.. Thanks a lot anyway!

Well somehow my post hasn't made it, so here's a brief version: I discovered (thx to Jan) that the Blog's node name is umbBlog, while the DateFolder's name is just DateFolder (you can see it in App_Data/umbraco.config). So, I changed line 17 to Snippet

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::umbBlog/DateFolder">

And everything worked!

Hi Ulu

Happy to see you found the solution. I'm a bit puzzled that our installs differ though...you have not changed any names in the document types etc.? Just installed it out of the box? (I did, not modifications or anything).

/Jan

Hi Ulu

From reading this post: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/getting-started/installing-umbraco/16758-Business-Website-Starter-Kit-461-new-install

It just hit me - are you by any chance using the Basic Website package, like Rob is? Then it makes sense to me that we had these differences. If so then I guess this should be reported as a bug so the author of the package can fix it.

Cheers

/Jan

Hi Jan,

Well, to tell you the truth, I don't remember which starter kit I used, but must have been the one. It just installed the blog, that's it. Now I begin to suspect that this is different from Blog4Umbraco, right? Cause your blog is Umlaut.Umb.Blog, while what I got is Runway smth.

How do I report the issue?

ulu

Hi Ulu

This was very helpfull. I'm wiser now. In the post I reffered to above Rob has been installing the business starter kit, which includes the blog package as well. I have just installed this locally and can see that it's a bit buggy.

I also saw the option to install just the blog kit, which also seems to have a minor bug after what we've been through in this post. I think I will test around a bit and then report bugs to codeplex tomorrow if they have not been created.

Cheers

/Jan

No problem, and thanks for the great product!

ulu

Jan,

Suppose I use the dll from the source downloaded from CodePlex. Do I need to change anything, like xslt?

ulu

I discovered that it won't save comments. The reason is that the names of the input controls have wrong names. An easy fix would be to modify the field names in the AjaxCommentForm.ascx -- they should correspond to the id's. Or you could download and apply my patch from Codeplex.

Ulu,

Sorry for my obtuseness. To get your patch, do you have a patch file posted there, or is it merged with the latest version posted there? I'm still developing my codeplex sea legs

The patches are here: http://blog4umbraco.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/patches, but you'll have to rebuild the code etc (my patch modifies the code, not the ascx file), which is quite a hassle, considering assembly versions and stuff.

Most excellent; thanks!

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