By knight42 on

Hi

Am after some help with views/catagories and the like.

Im trying to make a car website, using views to let people seach for a car. With an exposed set of filters I need to have two sets of information.

The first column will be make, the second model. But when people select a certain make from column one, I need the relevant model names to load for selection into column two.

It needs to just display that information, or else if I load every car name, well there must be at least 600 or so! Far too many for one box.

Ive tried looking at parent nodes, catagories and the like but cant get anything to work. Can anyone please help?

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vm commented

views documentation = http://drupal.org/node/109604
20 steps to views happiness = http://drupal.org/node/63230

listed in case you haven't seen them

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knight42 commented

thanks for your help, perhaps im not getting it (it has been known) but i read through those two and still cant find what im after.

Let me go over it again. So in views, the first drop down menu you will have will be make. So say its

Audi
Ford
VW

there should be a second drop down list thats not assesable until you click on something from the first.

But say you click on "audi" then the second menu should load the values

A3
A4
TT

But then if you click back onto "ford" then the second menu should load....

Fiesta
Excort
Focus

And not the Audi information!

I understand the views, can make them work. I have a content type called cars and fields with MAKE, COLOR, SEATS etc all loaded in and have views that are straight views, so they will show all the FORD cars for instance, but its all the Ford cars, I want people to be able to limit the search and say only see Ford Focus cars.

Thanks Misunderstood for your help though! Really appriciated!!!

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vm commented

seems to me you want the activeselect.module or dependant drop downs.module

views is only for creating the lists, not creating the dropdowns
thus
if you have your taxonomy sorted properly you can use one of the menu.modules i've mentioned to make each selections dependant on the first selection.

taxonomy super select may also be worth investigating.

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