By offal on

I'm using the Audio module (and views) to upload mp3s to my site. I got these sorted by the value of the "year" metadata field entry, using views. It works well, except that I would like to be more specific about the 'Year' entry. I would like to enter the day, month, year and preferably am and pm.

I can enter this in the audio's node in the 'Year' field, but the only way I can get views to sort it correctly, is if I enter it the American way of year-month-day, rather than the Aussie way of day-month-year.

How would I go about sorting the audio by date if the date entry was something like "12-7-2010 am"? Is it possible without too much expert knowledge (i.e. extensive coding)? Is there perhaps a different way of typing this in so views interprets it correctly? Is there a different sorting tool in views that would make this possible?

Thanks in advance.

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offal commented

Any suggestions anyone?

newbie88’s picture

newbie88 commented

filter view or argument

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offal commented

Thanks for chipping in some ideas newbie88. Could you please expand on what you mean by "filter view or argument"
Being a novice with views, I'm not quite sure what to make of your suggestion.

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offal commented

I'm still hoping for some more help with this issue please.

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G Gavitt commented

You could set up your own date field in your audio content type using cck and http://drupal.org/project/date. That would give you alot of flexibility in views. Obviously its not gonna use your meta fields and you would have to date each mp3 by hand. You could also do the same thing with the node's authoring info and enter a date there but, that dates the entire node and not just the mp3 so you lose out on flexibility there.

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offal commented

Thanks for the suggestion Mr Pudding, I'll give it a go. I very much appreciate your thoughs