By drupalferret on

I have created a jobs section and am populating it with RSS feeds. I created categories inside the Aggregator then added the feeds to the categories. Next I created a jobs page (story). Next I went to menus and put the menu item for each category under the jobs section. Finally I went to blocks and configured each block to show only on the jobs page. All this works, but I have run into problems with the Alphabetical order of the blocks. There seems to be no way to structure them to appear the way I want.

Because there is going to be a lot of categories I figure an A-Z bar across the top of the page will be best followed by the individual (alpha order) categories. So when someone clicks B only the B categories are shown then when they click More Info in one of the categories they are taken to the specific feeds for that category (e.g. clicking B lists all categories beginning with B then choosing Banking takes the user to a page listing only the Banking feeds.)

It does not help telling me to use views. I know views can handle this and a plugin called views alpha sorter can deal with it too. But I do not know how to use Views and RSS feeds are not nodes so I am not sure if Views would be able to do it without a lot of fiddling round and quite frankly I don't know enough to fiddle with it.

So any help and advice would be appreciated - particularly with instructions

Thanks

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amariotti commented

You may take a look at the Glossary Module. I know that it has an A-Z bar at the top. You may be able to work from that. There must be something else out there though. Since you're pulling live data it's going to be somewhat difficult. You are probably using views to display the feed, so maybe there's something that views can do with it. Maybe add a filter at the top to search by first letter?.Sorry it I wasn't much help.

There's also an new G2 Glossary Module as well.