I occasionally think i understand how this module works; but every time i go to use it i am lost.

Pretty sure it CANT do what i need here - but sounds so close; thought i would ask.

i have 2 node types Artist and News. There needs to be a one to one relation between them (it is News about an Artist).

They i do this is (special Category module thing) is i tag (as in std taxonomy concept) the News node with an Artist. The category module lets you convert any node type to a vocabulary and the types nodes become terms - and it fills in the terms into the std taxonomy tables so you can still do normal taxonomy views things.

So my hope was to filter on News articles but post them with corresponding artist info.

figured views fusion would help here - but i need to realte the nodes together. Thought perhaps nodefamily, but i dont see anywhere where it would know what is creating the relation - and as a result - when i try to set this up... i get copies of all my news artices duplicated for each artist (which i guess matches your doc that says it matches all the nodes together)

so by example:

news A tagged with artist X
news B tagged with artist Y

ideally my view would have 2 nodes - A and B as primarys and the 2 nodes would include their correspnind artist info

so:
A with X info
B with Y info

but, of course i get:
AX
AY
BX
BY

sound about right? your module isnt really meant for what i am trying to do?

and yes, i know i could use noderefence to relate them and then use views fusion but need to do tagging for other reason.

and yes, i could look up tagged node in my template and pull data that way.. but views fusion seemed more elegant.. except of course for the fact that i dont thik it can work.

BTW - should someone be able to point me in the right direction i can pay them for their time - the project i am on is an extremely high profile client (think similar to sony's music box)

cheers,

Peter Lindstrom
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