How to set default newest record in detail area

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Hi, I have a news page with a list of news items, if you click a news item it will show on the detail area of the page. This works perfectly however I would like to always display the latest news item in the detail area when the page loads, before anything is selected. This is my page so far: http://gloom.band/news.php

Thank you

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Hi,
how do you display the detail region. Is it another query that executes on click of the main list?
Thank you

PS your link leads to a forbidden access page.

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Hi, it’s the same query. There are no restrictions on the page, however it is not a secure page.Try www.gloom.com.au and click on the news link for the same pge.

Thank you

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Getting an Error 403: Forbidden message

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Which country are you accessing from? I have a htaccess file with country restrictions, will include your country code.

Actually I’ve just removed the htaccss altogether so should be fine to see the page now.

Thanks.

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Athens Greece here…

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I’ve just removed the htaccss altogether so should be fine to see the page now.

Thanks.

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To get the last record i would normally just use a query sorted on the news_date descending so the last record is first and then use a LIMIT 1 clause to only select the last record. The query is simple however i have no idea off the top of my head how to set a LIMIT clause in Wappler but i am sure someone will.

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This is often accomplished with a paged query where you set the limit to 1, but I don’t know if it is the right approach in his case.

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This one you want to display on page load?

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Yes, that should do it fine @t11, never though of doing it that way. Paged query, descending date, limit 1

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Always the latest news item, at the moment it is test news item :slight_smile: Thank you.

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The paged query set to 1 will work to always display the latest news item by default on page load, but after that I want people to be able to click on headlines and show the news in the same detail area. At the moment I have it set to show if there is a value for the news id, so it is blank on page load. Do you think a conditional show/hide somehow to show the news in the same area?

Thanks for all your replies and advice,much appreciated. AJ

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This is not tested but think it will work.
1.You can create a cookie named ‘paging’
2.Initially set it as value=1 and when the user clicks on any of the other links set it to 15
3.Also set the paging to be shown when the cookie value > 1
This way it won’t display when you only show the first item

Hope it helps
Thank you!

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Thanks, that would probably work, but I did it a simpler way, using the paged query limit 1 as suggested, and duplicating the detail region, however hiding the second detail region when a value of news_id is present, so showing when none is selected. Works like a dream, thanks everyone for the help.

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