media download latest 5 items

[mhiggins14]

I want to show only the last 5 items in a category. I use the parameters below and get 16 items. Please help. 

{module_literature filter="latestClassified" itemId="57625"}

[Robert_K__Bell]

Like a lot of tags, you'll have to hide the extras with CSS, remove them with javascript, or loop over them yourself with Liquid.

[mhiggins14]

Ugh. Why doesn't it just work like its supposed to? latestClassified should only show 10 items but its showing all my items in that category. And, how hard is it to offer a parameter that allows you to choose how many items to show?  I don't want to have to hack the system. But thanks for responding Robert, I do appreciate it even though I'm unhappy.

[Stephen_Blignault1]

Hi,

I've come across this issue before and all the answers I got were a bit of a cop out too.

However with legacy method you'd call your web app like so:

{module_webapps,123,l,5}

With the new BC.Next method you call it this way. (using resultsPerPage)

{module_webapps id="123" filter="latestClassified" itemId="yourCategory" resultsPerPage="5"}

I know it's not beautiful nor programmatically correct, however 'she does the job!'.

Hope you can get this working for your Media Downloads too.

Cheers,

Steve

[mhiggins14]

Darn. That sounded promising but doesn't do a thing for the media downloads. I used that for webapps and was successful. I then hid the pagination in the css.

[Liam Dilley]

It just does not have that parameter Mary, with Liquid and a collection you can do what ever you want with it.

[Aggarwal, Gaurav]

Hi mHiggins14,

You can use liquid to achieve this.

{module_literature filter="latestClassified" itemid="118562" collection="test" template=""}

{% for item in test.items| limit:5 %}

<div>

    <p>{{forloop.index}}.<img src="{{item.iconUrl}}">- <a href="{{item.fileUrl}}">{{item.name}}</a> </p>

</div>

{%endfor%}

Replace item ID 118562 with the actual category ID.