Can we create a Prev-Slug?

Feature Requests
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Continuing the discussion from Next parent slug:

I want to provide back links. They are complementary to next-slugs but work in the opposite direction, they would generate a link to the previous document.

Am I able to do this in a template? What would the code look like?

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It’s not too hard to do in a template, just a little tricky.

Start by setting a global variable to hold the title of the previous page.

<?set prior-page = "" ?>

Follow this with your nextrec command.

<?nextrec?>

Then, wherever you want the prior-page link to appear, you would want something like the following.

<?if "=$prior-page$=" ?>
<p>
Prior Page: 
<a href="=$prior-page&f$=">
=$prior-page$=
</a>
</p>
<?endif?>

And then at some point before the loop command:

<?set prior-page = "=$title$=" ?>

This assumes you’ve sorted the input into the desired sort sequence.

Hope this helps!

Let me know if questions or problems!

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Nice. That worked once I added the “.html” extension to the template code for the link.

<a href="=$prior-page&f$=.html">
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