I have a list of stories which I want to group by year, but there doesn't seem to be a fine enough filter in Views to do so; I can only choose the Date field, not a sub-value from there. I see there is a 'Group by Month' module, but it's for 5.x only; is there a way to perform a similar function in Views?

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Assuming you're talking about post date or a similar field, go to configure that field. Set "date format" to Custom and set the Custom format to Y

Then set that to your grouping field. You probably also should sort on this field and set the granularity to Year to make sure items appear in the right order.

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stopsatgreen commented

Got it! Thanks a lot. Quick follow-up: is there any way of declaring the Grouped value? That is, in my News page to have the year appear above the group like so:

2008
- Story
- Story

2007
- Story
- Story

I can't see anything obvious that would allow me to do that.

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

I don't understand the question; it seems like what you already have should do that? What am I missing?

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stopsatgreen commented

At the moment the grouping takes place, but I want to know if it's possible to output the grouping criteria as a title; for example, as I'm grouping by year, would it be possible to state the year as a subtitle before each group:

2008
- Story
- Story

2007
- Story
- Story

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

That should be happening pretty much automatically if you have grouping set up. The list template specifically prints the $title, which is the grouping field.

stopsatgreen’s picture

stopsatgreen commented

Hmmm... no, unless I've modded a template and not realised:

http://tinyurl.com/6k2nwf

stopsatgreen’s picture

stopsatgreen commented
Status: Fixed » Active

I still can't see a way to put the Group criteria as a title; please see my page for an example of what I mean:

http://217.206.162.200/drupal/?q=latest-news

The news is grouped by year, but I want the year to appear as a title above each group. Is this possible?

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

In all templates that support grouping, there is a $title variable that is printed. That is the grouping field for that group of templates. This has been verified as functional, so I dunno what it is that's causing this not to work for you.

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stopsatgreen commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Rather stupidly, I'd overwritten the template in the theme directory and removed the if... print statement which output the title. I did this very early in the build and forgot about it.

Thanks for your patience in helping me track this down.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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idmacdonald commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

Hi,

I am reopening this one, because I want to group a list of events by month. I can see the custom display format as an option for a post date, but I am looking to group a list of events by month. I don't see any custom date format options for displaying 'date' module fields.

I supposed it may be a 'date' module issue to allow custom display formats, but if that's not available at the moment, then I guess I need to figure out how to theme the view.

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esmerel commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Don't reopen issues that have been closed for nearly a year. Open a new one, and refer to the old one.