Hi all,

I have a problem with a custom dataobject called articles in my clients project.

They want the ability to start writing an article belonging to my custom dataobject but not show it on the front end until they flag it as Published. I have created a custom field in the popup called Published and all is working great accept...

I need to use the Odd and Even page controls to close rows off in the template. However as the items flagged as Unpublished are still counted towards the number of items (I'm using 'if Publsihed' in my template to show/hide).

So, how would I go about removing items in my custom dataobject based on a custom field within it? I'm not too sure if it should be done from the custom dataobject file or the page type that is using it and I'm also not quite sure how it should be done, if it is possible!

Any pointers would be great.

Best regards,
K...

How have you got your list of objects? You can simply filter that list by published flag.

return Articles::get()->filter(array("Published" => 1));

http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/topics/datamodel