Extension: MD Show Expired - Show and filter expired entries on the EE control panel edit page
Posted: 15 October 2008 10:00 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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There wasn’t an easy way to show, or filter, your expired entries in EE (that I was aware of!) until now. This extension allows you to easily see what entries are expired - or set to expire in the future. A brand new dropdown is inserted in the search area of the Edit page so you can also filter by entries that are expired. Very handy if you use EE’s built in entry expiration!

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You can download MD Show Expired here.

I should note that I was testing the Expiration search dropdown with Edit Tab AJAX (which I love) and it was working fine.

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Posted: 15 October 2008 10:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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The man, The legend, The extension. This is awesome.

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Posted: 15 October 2008 10:10 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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I can already see a couple ways I can improve this. I should probably:

* make this a little more language independent
* allow user to choose a couple display options (use icon instead of text, etc)
* allow user to format date

Any suggestions are welcome, though!

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Posted: 15 October 2008 11:38 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Looks nice Ryan, although we don’t use the “expired” feature a lot, definitely a welcome addition to the entry listings.

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Posted: 16 October 2008 02:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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This is crazy! I was just wondering whether I could do this with built-in functionality just this morning!!  Will be extremely useful for the Events listing on my current site.

Excellent stuff Ryan, cheers!

Forgive my ignorance about Extensions and how they work or hook in to EE, but would there be a way for this to be used on a per weblog basis?  Say, for example, if I only wanted to use it on my Events weblog where it is most relevant and hence only show up in the Edit window when I view entries in that particular weblog?

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Posted: 17 October 2008 01:12 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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@mdesign: It’s very useful extension!

Are you planing create settings for determine weblog(s) to show expire info? Something like on the screenshot?

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Posted: 20 October 2008 07:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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angstmann & Gabriel: Re: doing this on a weblog by weblog basis. I need to make a column on the edit page in any case. Are you requesting that even if a certain weblog has expired entries, if it’s not in the weblog list - don’t show anything in the expired column?

Or are you saying that this should show up only if entries from certain weblogs are being shown? I’m not sure that’s possible - the column, as I understand it, always needs to be there, whether or not there is nothing in the table cell.

I’m pretty sure this could be set up to work on a per-weblog basis, but I’m not sure what the desired output would be on the Edit screen.

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Posted: 21 October 2008 03:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Just a heads up to let you know that this doesn’t seem to work without the Edit Tab AJAX extension, without it the ‘Filter’ tool at the top of the Edit page vanishes… other than that, super! I don’t think I ever rolled a site without Edit Tab AJAX anyway! smile

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Posted: 21 October 2008 03:48 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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What exactly isn’t working? I just disabled Edit Tab AJAX and sorting for Show Expired still worked for me (obviously you have to manually click the Search Button). Are you saying that you can’t filter because you can’t see the dropdown at all?

Could there be a different culprit that IS enabled that is making the Show Expired dropdown disappear?

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Posted: 21 October 2008 04:06 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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I did try disabling all the extensions and re-enabling them (See attached).

As you see the whole ‘filter’ panel vanishes. Very odd. I’m running the very latest build of EE 1.6.4 (20080829)...

Have you had any similar reports???

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Posted: 21 October 2008 04:32 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Oops meant to post here the other day about this one. I had the exact same thing happen the other day too. I too saw that this happened when I disable the Edit Ajax extension. Not too sure why it would do that though. I installed this on a localhost install to test it out.

I probably wouldn’t disable these two extensions though as they are both so good but just to say that I did experience this too.

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Posted: 21 October 2008 05:20 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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mdesign - 20 October 2008 07:51 AM

angstmann & Gabriel: Re: doing this on a weblog by weblog basis. I need to make a column on the edit page in any case. Are you requesting that even if a certain weblog has expired entries, if it’s not in the weblog list - don’t show anything in the expired column?

Or are you saying that this should show up only if entries from certain weblogs are being shown? I’m not sure that’s possible - the column, as I understand it, always needs to be there, whether or not there is nothing in the table cell.

I’m pretty sure this could be set up to work on a per-weblog basis, but I’m not sure what the desired output would be on the Edit screen.


Hey Ryan,

You might want to check out LG Image Preview which was requested and sponsored by Hambo. It has an option to choose which weblogs show the image in the edit table.

Your right about the column always needing to be there.

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Posted: 21 October 2008 05:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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Nathan & Mark: What the devil is going on there, I don’t know. Hmm. Could one of you send me the rendered source code of the page when it is doing that, so I can see exactly what is happening (or not being output)

Leevi: How in the world did you guess which extension I was going to open up to see how selecting multiple weblogs works? wink

Add: Nathan, I’m using the same version and build as you, and I’m disabling an re-enabling the Edit Tab AJAX extension and I cannot replicate this - I always get the box with the search dropdowns in it. THough I just noticed you’re using a newer version of Edit Tab AJAX than I am. I’m using 1.2.1 - looks like you’re using 1.2.2.

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