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steelej

09 May, 2012 01:59 PM

We have a student employmnet site to list jobs by department.
Each job listing is a page withing a dept. directory.
I index all the directories and grab the title and path to their index pages to output a list of links.

I've been asked if it's possible to include in that list the number of open jobs in each dept. directory (there is a node for "open" with a value of "Yes" if it is).

Instead of just a list of links:

Admissions
Alumni
Annual-fund

They want:

Admissions (2)
Alumni (1)
etc.

Any suggestions as to how to go about this?

The current script and block xml are attached.

• curr-scrpt.txt 1.2 KB
• block.xml 142.7 KB

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Charlie Holder on 09 May, 2012 02:16 PM

   

   This should be close to what you're looking for:

   ## This chooses only folders that have jobs
   #set ( $depts = $_XPathTool.selectNodes($contentRoot, "/system-index-block/system-folder[system-page[name!='index']]") )
   
   <h6>Current Jobs</h6>
   <ul class="columnnav">
       <li>
           <strong><a href="site://ssc/student-employment/index">Student Employment Home</a></strong>
       </li>
   #foreach ( $dept in $depts )
       ## Link to that Department's landing page
       #set ( $land  = $_XPathTool.selectSingleNode($dept, "system-page[name='index']/link").value )
       ## Size of array, the number of postings in that Department
       #set ( $jobs  = $_XPathTool.selectNodes($dept, "system-page[name!='index']").size() )
       ## Title of the Department Folder landing page
       ## Change this to access the $dept variable if you want to pull the folder title
       #set ( $title = $_XPathTool.selectSingleNode($dept, "system-page[name='index']/title") )
       
       #if ( $dept.getAttribute("current") )
           #set ( $curr = "current" )
       #else
           #set ( $curr = "" )
       #end
       
       <li>
           <a href="${land}" class="${curr}">$_EscapeTool.xml($title.value)</a> (${jobs})
       </li>
   #end
   </ul>
   

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2. Support Staff 3 Posted by Charlie Holder on 09 May, 2012 02:27 PM

   

   Update: added comments to the above code so it's more clear what's going on.

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3. 4 Posted by steelej on 09 May, 2012 03:05 PM

   

   Charlie,
   This is great. I added in the "open" switch so it only counts open positions. Thanks too for the comments.

   We're up and running.

   Jim

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4. steelej closed this discussion on 09 May, 2012 03:06 PM.

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