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8 years 3 weeks ago #4691 by syw
Replied by syw on topic Adding writer and number of articles per writer in selection
Selection by author has been added to the upcoming version of the module.
Nevertheless, there is a major performance overhead when it comes to the feature I wanted to add (allowing X items per category or per author).
I am working on trying to find the best possible solution.
Olivier.

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8 years 3 weeks ago #4693 by horssen
Replied by horssen on topic Adding writer and number of articles per writer in selection
Thanks, that is good news.

Perhaps that reading all articles for all writers/categories and store them in an internal table sorted per writer/category and appropiate date will help. Afterwards loop over the table and only keep the first x artcles per writer/category. Perhaps that this will help to improve the performance.

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8 years 3 weeks ago #4695 by syw
Replied by syw on topic Adding writer and number of articles per writer in selection
Thank you for your insight.
This is a module and I really have to study this issue before getting into a full blown application solution that adds in complexity. Modules are not standalone and multiple instances can co-exist on a page with possibly totally different outputs. Multiplying tables also means that they need to stay in sync at all times... We get into database administration territory here.
Olivier.

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