Thread:Hatebunny/@comment-25737724-20150526231638/@comment-25737724-20150530150949

Sweet mother of mercy, I think I about have it thanks to some of your inspiration about using categories to help sort in a single DPL. It also really helped that you knew I couldn't nest, that was driving me nuts. I like to close the loop - sometimes you google things and people have the same questions but then they never post what their answer was, so here's what worked in the end:

So first, I'm going to move forward with using passed in dates for volume overrides (which was always the plan). However, when those values are blank I'll call this code which now finally works. The decision I need to make along with fellow admins is to either assume first issue is always "1" and use that hardcoded, or change my Comic Template to create a "First Issues" category like we have with "Last Issues" category. I think an override belongs in the volume template. But long term I do like the idea of a "First Issues" category on comics anyways. So here's what works for start date and end dates to close the loop (note, if we use a "First Issues" cat, then you just make pass two |category equals, one with and one with "First Issues" instead of the Title search:

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For end:

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Thanks for your thoughts! :)