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| Project: | Flexisearch |
| Version: | 4.6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | helsinki |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
First, an excellent module and very timely for me. I was only thinking a few days ago about being able to have just this kind of functionality.
I have a number of pull down menus for certain custom fields (flexinode) with things like gender, age or similar information. There are only a limited number of entries possible, so having a text field on the search form doesn't make sense for these pull down menu fields. I think it would be great if, for example, all the entries by men in a certain age bracket (with or without other content keywords) for a particular content type could be pulled from the database. That would mean recreating the custom field pulldown menus used in the flexinode entry form. The menu would have to have a entry as well in case they didn't want to search based on that field.
Comments
#1
Hi Mark,
Would a block be of more use?
e.g. where you have 3 seperate drop down menus for age, gender and city, followed by a "filter" button?
where the "filter" returns flexinode links to nodes that fit the criteria..
Dub
#2
Certainly would. But I'm not a coder, so I wouldn't know where to start. Also, I have six vocabularies and each has different kinds of demographic information, although I suppose a separate block that was context sensitive would be okay. Any hints on how to go about that?
#3
Just an update...
I used the 'tabular view' of flexinode to show up a table with my chosen flexinode fields. They show as column titles that when clicked will sort that column, either asc or desc. That is really cool and gets over the problem of fields like drop downs etc..
See a working version at:
http://www.wilba.org/search/fields/work
It's funny that eventually when you stick around long enough, you get to realise the extent of functionality built into the various drupal modules.
#4