Hi Peter,
Your question is a bit unclear. I understand that you want to separate blog posts by some criteria, ande currently you can approach this in several ways:
- use separate blogs
- use blog categories
- use blog post tags

I would open a separate blogs for list A and list B. It is the easiest way to do it, you would not even have to open new pages, as URL rewriting would route all requests to the same physical page, and blog container knows how to parse the blog name from the URL.

Ok..right...

I dont nesseseraly want split the blogs into two pages as blogs itself but rather just a blog container only showing blogs of A or B not both on a selected page

We have a site blog with all the blogs regardless of category or by blog list - Photography, Camping, Site blog, etc

Then we have a photography PAGE (not a blog page) now we want to show all blogs relevant to Photography to show in the Blog Container Web Part we added to the page. The reason is why we want to add it to a page rather then a blog by itself as it serves as a article feeder for the page

Hi,

maybe you are looking for the "BlogPostList" module that can be used as a article feeder. You can put the Web part on the "photography" page and set the "BlogSlug" property which will filter our all posts that are related to that blog, or you can set "CategoryId" property which will filter posts by blog category. Also you can restyle the Web part if needed to suite your page specific style.

Does this answers your question ?

Regards

Yes that one might work, im getting a script error when trying to acess the properties of the Web Part, ill try sort that out and give it a bash then.

Peter

ok, it seems I have a bug somehwere, as soon as there is any other web part ie HTML editor and then the BlogPostList web part and I click on the properties of the BlogPostList the properties for the HTML web part appears. When I remove the HTML Web Part nothing happens then I click on the BlogPostList web part. I have tried it in FireFox and IE

in IE there is a error

Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 04:19:40 UTC

Message: Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Line: 4723
Char: 21
Code: 0
URI: http://www.naturetalk.co.za/ScriptResource.axd?d=Z6V3QdjI6XvmXd-LqwaOoSIcXRPp1rqtnpEjAdBG-Jhqr6BwnJLlSGccZrfLuOVKadztHmGvVCxIKqNeSpUei62iAZVYNmycrBr9rBP8qWkfeOg5AKDePKJb7yOJ-Lq5k4qWm9TKzsdxAHyT45Gcro3De86KT6k1Xb3Ve57nozLpvbrR0&t=ffffffffffbf9ecd

As a last post, I installed a new version on a laptop with the default database data as supplied nothing modified, I added a BlogPostList webpart to a page and I got the same error.

Peter

Hi,

unfortunately this error is not showing us anything. Can you please send us an error log from MonoX so we can check the error underneath ?

Regards.

We cannot replicate this behavior - by default blog page itself holds multiple Web parts and everything works. Is Properties link working on your other pages?

Hi Denis,

No its only the properties link for the BlogListPost...all other properties links work on that page and others. Unfortunatly I cant ecess the log files ill need to send them tomorrow.

Here is what I have done to explain a bit more.

I added a page to the site Photography -added a web part to this page Blog Post List (to only show blogs from our blog page that is relevant to Photograpgy) but to set it up we need to change the BlogSlug as described by khorvat. We cant do this as the properties button doesnt work. If there is a HTML WebPart or any other webpart on the photography page and i click on the properties link for the BlogPostlist, then for example the HTML Properties apear and not the BlogPostList web part properties.

Note: it is just the Properties link that is not working all other links Close - Delete etc does work for this web part.

My site went trough an upgrade and to test if it is a upgrade problem, I did a default install on a laptop as described in the instalattion manual. But I got the same error when I added a BlogPostList Webpart to a random page on the default install.

I hope its explained better.

Peter