# Time-sensitive or expiring content

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-sensitive-or-expiring-content/87661>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [March 5, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-sensitive-or-expiring-content/87661 "2007-03-05T01:05:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marshal\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Marshal\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marshal_L)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-sensitive-or-expiring-content/87661/1 "2007-03-05T01:05:12Z")

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Hi. I’m new to Radiant (and Ruby, RoR) but eager to use Radiant for a  
website I maintain. The site has an Events page where upcoming events,  
workshops, etc. are listed. The Home page of the site displays a  
summary of the events; a list of links to the events with their start  
dates. Nothing fancy. Look at [http://octopusgardenyoga.com](http://octopusgardenyoga.com) if you’re  
interested. It’s maintained manually by editing the events.html and  
index.html files whenever events are added and as they expire.

I was hoping to find a way to automate the updating of the events and  
the summary list and Sean C.’ weblog on time-sensitive content  
([http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/11/24/how-to-write-time-sensitive-or-expiring-content/](http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/11/24/how-to-write-time-sensitive-or-expiring-content/))  
looked like it would do the job. So after much stumbling around, I  
finally managed to get his tags working as extensions on my  
development system (Ubuntu Linux with radiant-0.6.0rc1.gem installed).  
In my Radiant-mental version, each event is a child page of /events/  
and they are displayed with:

\<r:children:each\>

This works as expected with expired content not displaying. However,  
I’ve not been able to get it to work for the summary list on the home  
page:

#### Upcoming Events

 \<== this makes no difference - : 
 \<== "start" has start date content 

Everything shows up whether it’s expired or not. If anyone has any  
ideas for making the summary list work, I would very much appreciate  
hearing from you.

BTW, I’ve read most of the discussion on page ordering, and while I  
don’t pretend to understand the implementation issues, I think this  
would be a very useful feature to have. It seems to me that two  
additional page attributes, “display\_on” and “remove\_after” (or  
something to that effect), might do the trick for both page ordering  
and time-sensitive content. For example, \<r:children:each  
by=“display\_on”\> would provide page ordering and something like  
\<r:if\_date matches"regexpr"\> would hide expired content. Just a  
thought.

Thanks in advance.