Authors Output as Links in Views [#562670]

When you choose to display the Author field in a View, it gets output as a link, even if you uncheck "Output this field as a link".

I would think that it would be preferable to give the user the option to output that field as a link, with the author page available as a destination under "replacement patterns" in that section of the Views UI.

Of course, this field is themable (theme_biblio_author_link()), so there's also that route. But that would affect the author output everywhere.

Just food for thought - thanks!

Comments

Comment #1

rjerome commented 29 August 2009 at 01:26

Good point, the Views stuff is still in it's infancy, so any feedback is welcome (code enhancements or default views also welcomed :-)

Ron.

Comment #2

rjerome commented 29 August 2009 at 01:52

Looking at this a bit more, what is being respected here is the "Hyperlink author names" setting in the "Links" section of the "admin/settings/biblio" page.

Comment #3

john bickar commented 31 August 2009 at 17:03

code enhancements or default views also welcomed :-)

Sure thing. I finally got my main production site upgraded to D6 so I can spend some time on the above.

Looking at this a bit more, what is being respected here is the "Hyperlink author names" setting in the "Links" section of the "admin/settings/biblio" page.

Thanks, that's a perfect solution (for me).

Still undecided about whether or not that preference should carry through to Views, but I will leave that up to you.

Thanks!