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Posted by Motolola on July 21, 2009 at 9:28pm

I am trying to create a Page view for a lyric website, that displays alphabeticals ...say 0-9, A -B -C ...Z ....in which when an alphabet is clicked, it goes to list out names of Artists names starting with that letter, and when a particular Artist is clicked, it takes you to Page of all his(Artist) album(and track), when the Track is clicked, you finally get to a lyrics page of the track.... something like www.azlyrics.com ... can Views and Taxonomy be used to achieve that as I have tried it but to no avail, or is there a module I can use to achieve that ...

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http://drupal.org/project/glo

Posted by tommyent on July 22, 2009 at 3:02pm

http://drupal.org/project/glossary

I thought I read somewhere you could do this in views 2 but I don't know how to do the alpha pager

Consider Views using the

Posted by aklouie on July 22, 2009 at 3:07pm

Consider Views using the taxonomy hierarchy filter or merely linking them all together by taxonomy and using a views attachment to display artists and the main page displaying the corresponding albums. Clicking each album then opens a new view which shows the tracks within that album.

Haven't tried this out on a

Posted by anotherdave on July 22, 2009 at 3:36pm

Haven't tried this out on a live site, but should work just using Views Arguments with a little CCK:

  1. Create a field on the Content Type where the Artist will be filled in.
  2. Create a new view
  3. To the Filters section choose "node:type" and set it to appropriate (song-lyric or whatever)
  4. Add a filter to show the node title. Link this field to its node
  5. When editing the view, add a new argument based on your new Artist Field.
  6. For "Action to take if argument is not present: choose "Summary, sorted ascending
  7. Check the box for "Glossary mode" and set a character limit of 1.
  8. Add another argument based on the Artist Field & don't turn on glossary mode

This should provide you with a view that drills down the the Artist level and then shows a list of Nodes (i.e. songs) for that person which will link through to the actual lyrics.

Hope this is of some use. (& works, is pretty much from memory & theoretical!!)
All the best
Dave

"Set a man a flame, keep him warm for a day. Set a man aflame, keep him warm for the rest of his life."

Any joy getting this working

Posted by anotherdave on July 31, 2009 at 2:42pm

Any joy getting this working after? Did it work out for you?

D

"Set a man a flame, keep him warm for a day. Set a man aflame, keep him warm for the rest of his life."

Not at the moment ...

Posted by Motolola on August 21, 2009 at 5:12pm

I haven't gotten it to work still .... I have just temporarily put it aside .... I think...what I am going to attempt is creating a page view for each of the Alphabets, then create another page view for the all the alphabet links(with html link tags) ... on a master page ... I think it should work that way ...

Thanks

Akinjide Motolola Agboola

I do think the Glossary mode

Posted by anotherdave on August 31, 2009 at 10:44am

I do think the Glossary mode of Views is your best bet, as it seems like an exemplary case of what it was designed for. If you are going down that route & hitting into problems, let me know & I'll try and give you a hand sorting them out.

Best of luck getting your site sorted anyway.

All the best
Dave

"Set a man a flame, keep him warm for a day. Set a man aflame, keep him warm for the rest of his life."

thanks

Posted by Motolola on September 11, 2009 at 9:15pm

Thanks Dave ... I 'll get on with it soon ... I 'll let you know the outcome ...

Akinjide Motolola Agboola

Glossary mode Ok, but..

Posted by Alun on November 16, 2009 at 12:29am

I am doing something along the lines of this too - I found that the problem was that artists beginning with a number (eg 10CC) were too few, so I would like to group the numbers together, say 0-9 being in one result. This doesn't work in glossary mode - any ideas?!

were you able to solve it

Posted by Motolola on December 3, 2009 at 4:59am

were you able to solve it still?

Akinjide Motolola Agboola

No, not yet!

Posted by Alun on December 5, 2009 at 3:00pm

No, I've not figured it out yet, though when people first navigate to the page, it shows the numbers, so its not a major problem.
If I find out a solution, I'll be sure to post it here.

Did you try

Posted by zeezhao on February 9, 2010 at 4:51pm

Did you try these:

http://drupal.org/project/vocabindex [alphabet view]

or

http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_vtn

Or do you need something quite different?

zeezhao: Thanks for the

Posted by Alun on February 9, 2010 at 5:52pm

zeezhao:
Thanks for the suggestion - I just had a look at those, but unfortunately they base themselves on taxonomy vocabularies. I am just talking about creating a glossary for a CCK field.

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