Organizing a Members List

Posted by root_of_roots on July 3, 2008 at 8:21pm

I have this members list that I need to put on my website. It has about 500 members. I would like to be able to use some kind of plugin or module to work like this: When you go to the Members page, you have the letters of the alphabet in a row. When you click A, everyone with the last name A appears, when you click F, everybody with the last name F appears. Does anyone know how to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated and thanks in advance..

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A couple of options for you

Posted by mrweaver on August 5, 2008 at 10:10pm

The first one works in views.
http://drupal.org/project/views_alpha_pager

Although I had problems with a user list in views and had to go to this module.
http://drupal.org/project/members

I have also recently downloaded
http://drupal.org/project/custom_pagers
but haven't started playing with it yet.

mrweaver

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thanks for the options

Posted by root_of_roots on August 14, 2008 at 7:10pm

hey mrweaver,

Thank you very much for the options. Only one of them however, has a Drupal 6.x version or patch. Views_alpha_pager developement has indicated that there is no update planned. And members (which looks like exactly what I need) has not had a release since late 2007.

The Drupal 6.x option is the custom_pagers project. I looked over the documentation and installed it and it does not seem to do what I wanted to do with it.

What have you managed to do with it - anything similar? I would really appreciate your input (or anyone elses).

Thanks,
-ROR

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Posted by sepeck on August 14, 2008 at 8:02pm

Is this just a 'members' list or something you will be automating from user accounts? Either way try Views 2 RC that is for v6. It has a help page on generating a View on user accounts and from there you could convert it to a user list created with nodes.

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organize custom list - not website members

Posted by root_of_roots on August 14, 2008 at 10:15pm

Actually I would just like to have a directory. For example - a node where at the top of the node there would be an alphabet. I would define custom items for each letter. So if I clicked on "A" - everything that I want to show up in a would appear in a list under "A".

Also I would like to have a custom field besides the alphabet. Say I wanted a link that said "2008". Then everything that I marked as appearing under 2008 would appear.

Just like this website's People list.
That website is a PERFECT example of what I am looking for. Except not by making multiple pages like they did. or using iframe for that matter.
Something to sort large amounts of list information.

Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thanks in advance,
-ROR

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Hi, have you had a look at

Posted by EdCazini on August 26, 2008 at 2:34am

Hi, have you had a look at the Directory module? Might give the solution your requirement.