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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>Thursday, May 15, 2008, 5:00:15
PM, Sameer Kumar wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>> (:if {*$:featured}=-?* :)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>you need to be more precise with
your conditional.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>You cannot use abc=xyz as
conditional, use instead<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>(:if equal abc xyz:)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>and you cannot use wildcards ?*<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>What exactly are you trying to
test?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>It may be possible with use of
markup expressions to construct a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>conditional test, or define a
custom conditional.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:windowtext'>I have a little form that
shows on the bottom of every page if the user is an administrator. This form,
built using Fox, allows the administrators to insert a ptv called ‘featured’
which has a date-time stamp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:windowtext'>I want to control the
visibility of this form based on whether the page already has the ptv defined
or not. It is as simple as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>If ptv is not set –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'> Show
form<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Else-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'> Show
“The ptv was set on ‘xxxx’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Ifend<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I use the ptv to eventually
build a list of pages that are exceptional. Similar to the “Featured
Articles” in Wikipedia. I also display the latest “Featured Article”
on the Home Page to draw people’s attention to these pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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