BEA's Publisher - Display Published Content Items

I'm using BEA's Publisher product with ALUI. I want to have a simple portlet that just displays Content Items that I've published, but after playing with it for a couple of hours, I find myself stuck.
I have a Data Entry template that just takes a name and a file, and a presentation template associated with that. But I can't figure out how to make the presentation template display a list of published content items associated with the Data Entry template.
I tried using the Tag Helper and I saw that the file properties were available, e.g. name, location, length, however I can't get the template to actually display the information.
Also, since I can't publish said presentation template (you aren't allowed to publish a presentation template associated with a data entry template), I have to make ANOTHER presentation template, and include the first one, and then make a new portlet that displays that second template. Is this how it's supposed to work? It seems awfully complicated for such a simple task.
I would greatly appreciate any input anyone can give. Thanks!
Edited by: user10704201 on Dec 12, 2008 12:32 PM

" I can't figure out how to make the presentation template display a list of published content items associated with the Data Entry template. "
While I believe that this is a correct statement, you can't use pcs:foreach to get all items associated with a DET, I think that what you really want is to display all the content items in a folder or in a list. The 2 ways I most commonly do it are:
use a list
1) create a DET for the main portlet item (for example, news stories) with a property of type list
2) create a DET for the type of item that goes into the list (for example, news article)
3) create a Content Item based on your main portlet item DET
4) add items to the list
5) iterate through the list in your presentation template (pcs:foreach expr="item.myList" var="mylistvar"...)
You can also tell each news article to automatically add itself to the news stories list. (Look in the DET for this setting)
use a folder
you can also just create your list items in a folder and then loop through the folder (pcs:foreach expr="folderByPath(item.folder,"folderName")"...

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