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Hi all, I’m having an issue with an installation of mine, where a client’s podcasts are being ordered via reverse relationships by a custom date field, (they are using the entry date field for other purposes) and all seems to work beautifully, except for anything before October 01, 2001. Those items show up *first* in the list, followed by everything else in the correct order. This is pretty vexing, since they have their *first* podcast/recording in August 2001. Are there any known bugs or causes of behavior that might cause this? Currently the code I have is:

{reverse_related_entries channel="podcasts" orderby="podcast_publish_date" sort="desc"}
{if count == "1"}<h3>Podcasts</h3>
<p><ul>{/if}<br />
<li><a href="http://{url_title_path=podcast}">{title}</a> | Published: {podcast_publish_date format="%F %d, %Y"}</li><br />
{if count == total_results}</ul>{/if}<br />
{/reverse_related_entries}

Is there anything I’m missing? Do I need to provide more info? Any help would be *greatly* appreciated!

Hi, Christopher. You didn’t mention which build/version of EE2.x your client is using. You can find that out in the bottom of any control panel page in the footer.

Sorry, Sue. I’m running EE 2.1.3, build 20101220.

Are those posts stickied by any chance?

Unfortunately, no. And if they were, it’d be odd that they’d only show up at the top if they were pre-October 2001.

Keeping reverse_related_entries out of the equation for now.. if you use a standard exp:channel:entries loop, do the items display as expected when using that custom field?

It flows perfectly fine, as we have it in a podcast feed. It shows perfectly fine there when not displayed as a reverse_related_entry.

Christopher,

just to rule it out can you add a status to the reverse_related_entries tag

{reverse_related_entries channel="podcasts" orderby="podcast_publish_date" sort="desc" status="not closed"}

John,

I tried it out, and still have the same issues. Here’s my full code on droplr: http://d.pr/r0I7

The page in question is: http://nurevolution.net/ee/artists/trey_turner

The “Broken” entry should not show at the top for the artists’ podcasts.

Hi, Chris!

The first step in troubleshooting this is going to be making a reduced template with the bare minmum, to isolate the issue.  Can you try this in a test template?  No other code.  It will be a totally unstyled page:

{exp:channel:entries channel="artists" disable="categories|trackbacks|member_data" limit="1"}                    
<h1>{title} : {entry_id}</h1>
                    {reverse_related_entries channel="podcasts" orderby="podcast_publish_date" sort="desc" status="not closed"}
                    <a href="http://{url_title_path=podcast}">{title}</a> | Published: {podcast_publish_date format="%F %d, %Y"}

                    {/reverse_related_entries}
{/exp:channel:entries}

and let’s see if we get the right results?

Thanks!

Hi, Christoper.. how are things going? Any news?