Pub links work from a Biblio node but not from an author page

I notice that the View wrestles all author names into Last Name, First Initial form.
Could this be doing some violence to the filtering?

http://drupal.org/node/148117 offers this:
"... filter by author link for the name works properly if "normalize" is off (/biblio/author/van+Gunsteren) but is broken if normalize is on (/biblio/author/van++Gunsteren) ..."
In my case Biblio normalize is set to OFF.
So I guess the View module is doing the normalizing.

I just added the Biblio Normalize module, activated it & set authors field to be normalized, with delimiter ";"
No change in results.

I'm guessing that you are using the biblio_views.module that was recently posted to this forum in another thread? As I said in that thread (http://drupal.org/node/234891#comment-878408) that module still needs some TLC and I don't really have the time to do it right now :-(

The best I can tell you is that views support will come, probably in the 6.x version first since that's what I'm working on now.

Ron.

Thank you for responding, I know you're busy.
Yes; I de-activated Biblio Views just before reading your post, & the View (http://mysite.com/publications_type1) disappeared.
Oddly, the View was working before I had even installed Biblio Views.

For whoever might find it useful, here is my interim solution to just de-activate links in the author name output generated by Views.

This prevents a call to biblio_views_author_links() which, I think, generates author-name links in Views of Biblio content.
It does not interfere with author-name links in pages like: http://mysite.com/biblio/author/SomeName .

In biblio_views.module:

function biblio_views_handler_field($fieldinfo, $fielddata, $value, $data){
switch ($fielddata['field']) {
case 'biblio_authors':

// commented this out:
// return _biblio_views_author_links(_biblio_parse_authors($value));
// tried this instead:
return _biblio_parse_authors($value);

default:
return $value;
}
}

BTW I was basically guesstimating _biblio_views_author_links was where author names are output as links.
Is this part where the action is?

function _biblio_views_author_links($author) {
(snip)
foreach($author_array as $auth) {
$newquery = $query . "&filter0[]=".trim($lastname);
$html .= l(trim($auth), 'biblioview', $attrib, $newquery);
}
return $html;
}

Thank you.

The other issue which you elude to above is the fact that the biblio module has some limited built in views capability and I really don't know how this interacts with the standalone views module. Likely there is some overlap which may be confusing things a bit as well.

Ron.

Related issue:

From a publication 'node', say: http://mysite.com/node/51
the link to the downloadable publication is correct: http://mysite.com/files/mysite.files/pubname.pdf

From an author page: http://mysite.com/biblio/author/Dickens
links to publications look like this: http://mysite.com/biblio/author/files/mysite.files/pubname.pdf

Note apparent insertion of 'biblio/author' in the url.

I haven't yet found where in biblio.module this is handled. Something to do with the base url?
The biblio_url field in table biblio is not illuminating at least, select biblio_url from biblio returns zero results.
Can you point to where I might attempt another small hack?

------ if the paths above are confusing: ---------

My setup is multisite & I keep the files separate:

drupal-5.7/the usual stuff inside, with a symlink called 'files' linking to ../drupal.files

drupal.files/
mysite1.com.files/
mysite2.com.files/
etc.
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Is this a "Views" page or is the views module in anyway involved here?

I haven't seen that on my own site (but that doesn't mean it not a bug) which is also multi-site with different files directories .

Ron.

I don't think Views is involved here; pages automagically spring up for every author in the database, and I didn't create Views to do that. I think Biblio generates it - all the style tags are Biblio.

I'll try to reproduce it on this end, but if I can't, fixing it may be difficult. Any chance you could send me a link to the site so I can see for myself?

Ron.

I'll have to reproduce it for you on another server, will try to do that soon.