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Newscoop 4.2 Cookbook

Issue

The issue object is set at the beginning of the main template, based on the request URL. This object can be changed using the set_issue function. The issue object has the following properties:

  • name: issue name
  • number: issue identifier in the Newscoop database (integer value)
  • <date_attribute>: issue publish date field (year, month, day etc.)
  • date: the issue publish date; you can customize the date display format by using the filter camp_date_format (see the chapter "Date and e-mail formatting")
  • publish_date: alias of date
  • template: the full path of the issue template file
  • publication: the publication to which this issue belongs (see the chapter "Publication")
  • language: the issue language (see the chapter "Language")
  • url_name: the issue name used in URL display (see the chapter "Creating An Issue" in Newscoop for Journalists and Editors)
  • defined: boolean value (true/false) - true if the issue was set in the current environment; false otherwise
  • is_current: true if the issue set in the environment was the latest published issue
  • is_published: true if the issue has been and is currently published; false otherwise

<date_attribute> may be one of the following:

  • year: year as a number (four digits)
  • mon: month as a number (1..12)
  • mday: day of the month as a number (1..31)
  • yday: day of the year (1..366)
  • wday: day of the week as a number (0=Sunday..6=Saturday)
  • hour: hour (0..23)
  • min: minute (two digits)
  • sec: seconds (two digits)
  • mon_name: name of the month
  • wday_name: day of the week

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