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Why DocLister Became the Natural Successor to Ditto and CatalogView
A historical extras article about the moment DocLister emerged as a cleaner and more scalable listing approach for Evolution CMS.
DocLister did not become important only because it was new. It became important because it responded to the real pain points teams had with older listing tools such as Ditto and CatalogView.
What the article emphasized
- better extensibility
- smarter summary generation
- better handling of request parameters
- cleaner work with TVs and data processing
Why this mattered historically
For many Evolution CMS projects, this was the moment when list rendering started moving away from “just make Ditto work somehow” toward a more maintainable, controller-like approach.
Fixing Reflect Archives That Show January 1970 for pub_date
A practical archive-filtering note for Reflect and Ditto setups where publication-date archives accidentally generate an empty 1970 bucket.
Rendering a TV Row Only When the TV Has a Value
A neat manager-side pattern for putting conditional presentation directly into the TV configuration so templates stay cleaner and output only appears when the field is filled.