Plan campaigns with start and end dates #

A campaign layout that takes over a page from one date to another.

Life cycle: Plan, example 18 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.

Contents #

1. In the Layouts editor
2. With templates
3. Which to choose
4. Check

In the Layouts editor #

1. New mapping offers the condition Time next to Siteaccess, Class, Query parameter and Route parameter.
2. The resolver checks the time against from and to. Since explayouts 1.4.42 it remembers that answer only until the condition's next start or end, not for [ResolverSettings] CacheTTL; when that moment is within the page cache's [HttpCacheSettings] MaxAge (3600 seconds), the page is kept out of the page caches (Cache-Control: private, no-store). A range that is over is cached normally.

With templates #

1. The template way is a condition in the template (currentdate() against a date) and a cache clear at the switch.

Which to choose #

Plan the switch with the Time condition: it switches at its start and end, without lag.

Check #

• The campaign mapping has a higher priority than the regular one.

Related pages #

• Which layout does a page get?
• Plan examples, every page
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.