Greetings and happy new year.
I need some help thinking this through and any comments are appreciated.
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I want a "report" content type to have two views.
1. a landing page with some but not all of the information AND a link within to the full publication
2. a full publication view with some but not all of the information.
each view would share print friendly features (at the top), the landing page should be able to print the full publication even though it doesn't display.
I also have a ton of other publication content types, none with landing pages.
THIS IS WHAT I'VE DONE
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I have created my report content type with CCK
I've included an extra field (Link) within for a URL to a "landing page" of the report
I use views to create landing pages for all my reports
okay AND
I have created a list views block of recent reports, I point the Title of my reports to the CCK Link field.
okay that's all working nicely HOWEVER
HELP MY WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THIS
1. How do I get my landing page to share print features? I realize there is a node relationship here, there is something I know I don't know..... should I approach this differently? node family?
2. I want to create a list views block of all my content types: reports, articles, memos etc and make one big publication library. I can do this sure but...
My titles all point to their respective URLs but I want my reports to point to my landing page URL... ?? fusion with node family .... union?
I have my views template titles printing titles...how do I combine these? Do I? I'm a php novice.. thoughts?
<div class="view-data-title">
IF REPORT CONTENT TYPE DO THIS:
<?php print str_ireplace("placeholder",$title,$field_abstractpage_url) ?>
OTHERWISE DO THIS:
<?php print '<a href="' . base_path() . 'node/' . $nid . '">' . $title . '</a>' ?>
</div>This is just a can of worms but I appreciate your feedback!