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Hi
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I have a form based on the demo articles form, which has an article_delete_link which opens a popup containing {view:article_delete_confirm}
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I need the form to show items with a date both future and past, but I need to make sure that only items with dates in the future can be deleted.
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Is there a way to do this?
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Many thanks

Instead of using {view:article_delete_link} in your table, use
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{fn:delete_switch_php$date=(var:tablename.row.datefield)}{fn:delete_switch}

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instead.
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Create a delete_switch_php PHP block. Return true or false depending on whether or not $this->get("date") is in the future or not.
Create a delete_switch Switch element. Data source {var:delete_switch_php}.
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true:{view:article_delete_link}
false:Whatever you want

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This will mean that the delete button only shows up for future articles.
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DO NOT COPY+PASTE FROM THE FORUMS.

Thanks Healyhatman but I can't get this to work - it removes the delete button from future as well as past items.
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The date is called start_date and has model ID of Article so I have created delete_switch_php like this:

$today = date("Y-m-d");
if ($this->get("Article.start_date")>$today){
  return true;
  } else {
  return false;
  }

Then I created a delete_switch element with a data provider of {var:delete_switch_php} and these values:

true:{view:article_delete_link}
false:No-delete

In the view I have replaced {view:article_delete_link} with

delete:{fn:delete_switch_php$start_date=(var:read_articles.row.start_date)}{fn:delete_switch}

Even when I have an item where the start_date is in the future.
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Can you see from this what I am doing wrong?
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Thanks again
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Mikki

read_articles.row.model.start_date

Also that PHP code is.... Not right. I'm on holidays right now so can't do it for you but you're comparing a date object to a string

Thanks again - i should be able to fix it now.

Many thanks healyhatman that worked really well