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Counting Published Child Documents with DocLister in Evolution CMS
A simple but useful listing task: show how many published child resources belong to a given document or section.
Even small document counts can improve navigation. The donor behind this article asked a simple question: can DocLister output the number of published child documents for a resource?
That sounds minor, but counts like these are useful in category menus, dashboards, archive pages, and section cards where the user should know how much content lives behind a branch.
What to keep in mind
- Count only published resources if the number is user-facing.
- Be clear whether hidden, deleted, or protected resources should be excluded.
- Prefer a query that matches the exact publication rules of the site.
The key lesson is that “number of children” is never just a tree question. It is a publication-state question too. That is why this donor still deserves a clean place in the blog.
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