[TYPO3-ttnews] archive menu (year) within main_menu: year won't show up

[bob wild]

Anybody help, please? After 3 or 4 days of unsuccessful work I almost 
beg for help. The deadline is Friday...

Thanks!
Regards, Robert

> Hi, list,
>
> I desperately need your help!
>
> (My setup: Typo3 4.3.1, tt_news 3.1)
>
> I implemented a news archive menu (by year) in the main menu like this
> (havin a subpart ###NEWS_ARCHIVE### in the template):
>
> lib.ARCHIVE_MENU < plugin.tt_news
> lib.ARCHIVE_MENU {
> # List View of the archived menues
> templateFile = fileadmin/templates/news/tt_news_v3_template.html
> code >
> code = AMENU
> pid_list >
> pid_list = 14
> singlePid >
> singlePid = 25
> archiveTypoLink.parameter = 24
> archive = 1
> enableArchiveDate = 1
> emptyArchListAtStart = 0
> reverseAMenu = 1
> useHRDates = 1
> useHRDatesSingle = 1
> useHRDatesSingleWithoutDay = 0
>
> #datetimeDaysToArchive = 90
> #archiveTitleCObject >
>
> archiveMode = year
> archiveMenuNoEmpty = 1
> archiveHeader_stdWrap = |
> archiveEmptyMsg_stdWrap = There are no archived news.
> archiveTitleCObject {
> 10 = TEXT
> 10.field = start
> 10.strftime = %B - %Y
> }
> }
> [PIDinRootline = 2]
> page.10.subparts.NEWS_ARCHIVE < lib.ARCHIVE_MENU
> [GLOBAL]
>
> The functionality works fine, the weird is is just that the %Y won't
> show - instead everything is empty (I placed a little bullte graph
> before the items, so I could check, wether the links work or not - they do)
>
> Does anybody have any idea, why this is?
>
> When I place the plugin on a page via the Backend Module (and via TS),
> everything works fine.
>
> Thanks for any hints!
> Regards,
> Robert