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Creating Your Own Smart Folder - Part 2
At this point the Smart Folder exists, but it doesn't do anything because you have to give it some criteria to tell it what to do. As you might expect, click on the Criteria tab to finish your Smart Folder set up.
Notice that there are two boxes, so to speak. One is labeled Add New Search Criteria, and the other is labeled Set Sort Order. Ignore Set Sort Order for the moment.
Under Add New Search Criteria are two drop-down menus called Field Name and Criteria Type. Click on the Field Name menu to see all the choices. To create a News Smart Folder, choose Item Type.
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You may notice that when you select Item Type, that there is only one choice for Criteria Type. That is because you must push Add to create the search criteria, then you can select the exact content type that your Smart Folder will search for. Other Field Names such as Creation Date will give you more than one Criteria Type to choose from. In the example on the right, you can choose a Creation Date range or relative date.
After pushing the Add button, the top of the Smart Folder screen should look like this:
To delete a criterion, use the check box in the first column and push Remove.
From the list under Value find News Item and select it. You may select several Content Types from this list by holding down the Control button when you click on content types. If you do select several Values from the list, you can join them using the Operator Name to search for News AND Files, or News OR Events. When your're finished with this, push Save.
You're now looking at three boxes on the screen. The top box is the criterion you we're just working on. The second box allows you to Add New Search Criteria. This is how you could, for example, search for News Items (criterion one) created before July 1st (criterion two). The third box is Set Sort Order if you wish to change the order the results display in.
Note: All the above only works if you actually have News Items on your Plone site. If you do not, try changing the Item Type to Page. That should show you some results.
