KK,

I am trying to make it so I can show events on a page using the criteria of start_date to show them.

The problem I am having is I want to show by month.

I created an additional field in the template to choose month, but would like to get rid of that field and just use the start_date.

This is what I have now.

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<cms:pages masterpage='sale_template.php' show_future_entries='1' limit='10' paginate='1' custom_field="sale_month==November | status!==archive" order='asc' orderby='start_date'>

This is what I would like to happen.

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<cms:pages masterpage='sale_template.php' show_future_entries='1' limit='10' paginate='1' custom_field="start_date==November | status!==archive" order='asc' orderby='start_date'>

The problem is the month is not stored as November, it is stored as the usual yyyy-mm-dd

So is there a way to do something like:

custom_field="start_date = <cms:date start_date format='F' />==November | status!==archive"

I know that's not right, but it helps show what I'm trying to do.

Also here is the editable input field that corresponds.

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 <cms:editable 
      name='start_date' 
      label='Start Date' 
      height='60'
      required='1'
      type='datetime' 
      months='January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December' />

Hi Shuff19,

May I suggest taking a look at the <cms:archives tag, I believe you'd be able to achieve your desired output through use of this tag.

Please see: http://www.couchcms.com/docs/concepts/u ... hives.html for more info

I did a lot of searching the forums, I guess I didn't do enough

I found my solution in this post. http://www.couchcms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7126&p=9537&hilit=datetime#p9537

Basically instead of using:

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custom_field="start_month==November

I used

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custom_field='start_date>=2014-11-01 | start_date<2014-12-01

It was KK's answer of course!