Fragmenting Backbone collection view based on some criteria
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I'm a bit new to [BackboneJS][1] and [Marionette][2], and I'm a bit stuck on how to implement some tricky behaviour with a [CollectionView][3]. Suppose I have a list of appointments, each with an appointment date/time (stored as a unix timestamp, but that's not important).

When I display these, I'd like to display them as follows:

### Today
* Meeting A (10:00 AM)
* Meeting B (11:00 AM)
* Meeting C (1:00 PM)
* ... and 4 more

### Next 7 days
* Meeting D (Monday at 3 PM)
* Meeting E (Tuesday at 2 PM)
* ... and 7 more

The approach I'm considering is to pull one collection from the server for the next 7 days (including today) and then do 2 views over the collection (one for today, and one for the week). Here's what I'm struggling with:

* AFAIK, the Marionette.CollectionView renders *all* the elements in a collection. Is there an easy way to override this behaviour to only render, say, 3 or 4 items?
* How do I deal with the _... and n more_ line? It's not really a model, but its data is computed from the underlying collection.

If it makes a difference, I'm using @SlexAxton's [requirejs-handlebars][4] project for templating.


  [1]: http://backbonejs.org
  [2]: https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette
  [3]: https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette/blob/master/docs/marionette.collectionview.md
  [4]: https://github.com/SlexAxton/require-handlebars-plugin