Placeholder on list intro/outro not support?

[myfatebiz]

Hi,

According on my title. Fabrik don't have this feature on list but i see form intro/outro support placeholder. Just curious why list not support placeholder since front-end template under group by only can use when group by is enable.

Best Regards,
MyFateBiz

 

[rob]

Form's can do that as you are dealing with a single record, on a list however you have multiple records, so its not possible to know which row's data to use as the placeholder when rendering the intro/outro

 

[myfatebiz]

How about custom group by template for non-group by?. I just want to put last update on the top listing. Please see the attachment. Thanks.

 

[rob]

I believe that area can use placeholders but will take it from the first row in the repeat group

 

[myfatebiz]

I use some trick which is :

1. Create new element called `group_by` (field)(hidden) with default value set to '1'. This is using for group by template.
2. Create new element called `date` (date).
3. Create new element called `last_update` (calc) using the code below :

$db = JFactory::getDBO();
$db->setQuery("SELECT DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%d-%m-%Y') FROM `sample` ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 1");
return $db->loadResult();

The result will give me the last updated record in any row and it solve my problem. Thread close.