Hello
I'm working on a site for a small movie theater. But I'm stuck and I hope some one can guide me in the right direction.

Each movie is basicly just a page in umbraco with some standard properties like title, story, cast, director etc.

My problem is, that I need a property where I can select which days and times the movie is playing. Each movie will be played serval times.

Also I need to list this in a simple way on the site. I was just thinking something simple like this:

Monday, 17-11-2008 19:00, Quantum of Solace
Thuesday, 18-11-2008 19:00, Quantum of Solace
Wedensday, 19-11-2008 19:00, Burn After Reading
Thursday, 20-11-2008 19:00, Burn After Reading
Etc....

Can anyone tell me how to achieve this?

Thanks
Lars Skjoldby

Here's another approach. It isn't as flexible as Dirk's, but it might work in your situation.

The limitation is that you have to decide how many days to track, and that's how many properties you add to your docType. I'm going to assume that someone updates the movie listings once a week. Thus, you'll need 7 days of tracking for each movie. Let's do 8 days just to be on the safe side.

Here's what you'd do:

1. On the existing document type you're using for the movie (with cast, director, etc.), add a new tab called 'Show Times'.

2. Add new docType properties to the Show Times tab; one date picker and one textfield. Something like:
- Name: Monday's Date
- Alias: mondayDate
- Type: date picker (no time)

- Name: Monday's Show Times
- Alias: mondayShowTimes
- Type: textfield
- Description: List show times for this date (comma separated list if more than one showing today)

3. Repeat step 2 for Tuesday through Sunday.

4. Repeat step 2 again and add an additional set of fields for 'Following Monday' just in case the usual updates don't happen first thing every Monday morning. This isn't required but might be useful.

Each movie will then have a full week's list of show times and dates.

You'd then create two xslt macros. One would list all the movies playing this week and the other would list all the movie times for a specific movie.

cheers,
doug.

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Sounds like a good approach. And getting the output in xslt is not a problem.

Now, since I don't know the alias names of your docType properties I'm going to make some up. You'll need to modify according to your actual alias names. (I typed this in the forum so there's always a chance of a typo)



As you can see, there are only a few steps involved, though you can embellish to your heart's content :)

First, we select all the nodes in the content section of the proper docType (that is, @nodeTypeAlias). We further limit the list to only those nodes that are for today or in the future (I'll need to double-check that code, I may have made that function up... but the idea of what you want to do is at least correct).

Second, once we've got all the movie occurances for today and in the future, we sort them by date and then by time.

Third, we print out the result for each of those nodes, taking advantage of the fact that the parent of a MovieOccurance docType is a Movie docType. I've assumed you just use the node name for the movie title but if you've got a separate property on the Movie docType you'd just change the select to <xsl:value-of select="../data[@alias='MovieTitle']"/>

Hope that helps.

cheers,
doug.

By the way... if my xslt code above doesn't work you can start with a simpler version that will and then add to it to narrow down the output:

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