Browsing by Published date

[mcam]

I have a library of monthly publications going back 25 years. Is there a way I can have the tag browser show the year component of the Published Date meta field, so I can jump straight to a specific year and list only the issues of that year?

[kovidgoyal]

Simply type:

pubdate:=2013

in the search bar, replace 2013 with the year of interest.

[chaley]

You can do this by creating a composite custom column (a "column built from other columns", but not "acts like tags"). You would check the box "Show in tag browser". The template would be

{pubdate:format_date(yyyy)}

You will now have an entry in the tag browser for each publication year.

Do note that composite columns can cause performance problems, especially for very large libraries. Try it and see if the performance is acceptable. If not, then delete the column.

[mcam]

Originally Posted by chaley

You can do this by creating a composite custom column (a "column built from other columns", but not "acts like tags"). You would check the box "Show in tag browser". The template would be

{pubdate:format_date(yyyy)}

You will now have an entry in the tag browser for each publication year.

Do note that composite columns can cause performance problems, especially for very large libraries. Try it and see if the performance is acceptable. If not, then delete the column.

Thanks a bunch, that worked a treat. The library is quite small (12 issues per year x 25 years) so the performance hit is negligible.

[mcam]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Simply type:

pubdate:=2013

in the search bar, replace 2013 with the year of interest.

Thanks.