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By SamTN on
Hi everybody, I'm a newbie, I want to create a music site and I want to have a module that display a list of songs, and I also allow visitor to search the desired songs on that list. Please anyone can tell me how can I do like that?
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Taxonomy & Views
I just recently done a similar thing for my site:
Download the Taxonomy & Views modules and install...........
For your list use a Taxonomy Term which will link them together say:
New Vocab.................
1.Vocab Name: Music
2.Content Type: lets say 'page'
3.Multiple Select
4.Save
add term..............
Term Name: Name of Song & Artist >
Save
lets do the following five songs
Then create a node for each song and link them together with there Taxonomy Term
Create Content > Page
Title: Name of song & artist
Select the song in Music Taxonomy
copy the above for all your songs
Save
Start Views
View Name: music_list
View Description: Music List
View Type: Node
NEXT
(The views interface can look Scary at first but once you get use to it, its really cool and powerful.)
THE FIELDS OPTION WILL SHOW WHAT RESULTS YOU WILL GET:
Click the + sign on FIELDS
Scroll down to NODE: Title > Tick
Add
Remove Label: Title
Link This Field To Its Node > Tick
Update
THE FILTERS OPTION FILTERS OUT THE INFORMATION YOU ARE ASKING FOR:
Click the + sign on FILTERS
Scroll down to Node: Published > Tick
Add
Click the + sign on FILTERS
Scroll down to Taxonomy:Term > Tick
Add
Vocabulary: Music
Selection type: Dropdown
UPDATE
Operator: Is one of
Select terms from vocabulary Music: highlight all your songs
EXPOSE
Leave everything as it is except Label: call this what you like but lets say 'Songs & Artist'
UPDATE
Below where it says Live Preview you should be able to see your Dropdown box and an Apply button....cool
Now lets turn this into a block so you can put it where you want on your site
On the left side of views make sure above the Add Display Button it says Page > Click the button
Basic Settings:
Name: Click 'Page'
Page: The name of this display > Change This To 'Music List'
UPDATE
Title: Click 'None'
Music List: The title of this view > 'Music List'
UPDATE
Exposed form in block: Click 'No' (this turns the view into a block)
Change to Yes
Click OVERRIDE (the reason you override is so this option is not used in the dafault)
UPDATE
Header: Click None
in the text area type > Song & Artist
Click OVERRIDE (the reason you override is so this option is not used in the dafault)
UPDATE
Path: Click None
in box type > music_list
UPDATE
CLICK SAVE
Views is all done.................
Position your block
Administer > Site Building > Blocks
Scroll down untill you see > Exposed form: music_list-page_1 goto its dropdown option and click where you would like to put it
SAVE
Goto Homepage and your dropdown appears...Hooray Really Cool.
I hope I have explained it well so you can get it to work, Taxon0my & Views can be a real pain until you get used them but dont give up........
Robert
Great explanation, right when I needed it
Just today I was looking for this information. You taking me by the hand and leading me through, made it very easy for me.
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Thanks for your help. Your help is clearly. I wonder if we can have a more complex search form or not?
Oh Yes
You can add more than 1 Exposed filter and these will work with each other
Say
one search saying artist and another saying song, if you have multiple songs from multiple artist this will cut down on your dropdown box being too long.
But if you want a search box do the following:
Click the + sign on FILTERS
Scroll down to Search: Search Terms > Tick
Add
Expose
Label: what ever you want
Update.
This will give you a search box just like the normal one but this will work with your other options in the dropdown......
I asked a question on here the other day about how to use views to change the list in the next dropdown:
What I mean is lets say you want to search for a song by Abba but you have other artist, your list would be very long, but if you choose Abba in your first dropdown the next dropdown will only show Abba songs.
No one replied to this but I am working on it I think it will have something to do with Arguments.
Robert
Robert
Great
I can create a more complex form now, thank you very much.