[support] Content with multiple fields

Anoop John anoop.john at zyxware.com
Tue Oct 22 15:45:29 UTC 2013


Hi Chris,

Do check these out

https://drupal.org/node/1565480
http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/4770/how-do-i-group-elements-in-a-view

Thanks
Anoop

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On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Chris Miller <cjm at tryx.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a content-type, "Coming Events", which has zero or more "Happening"
> dates that represent the schedule for some event.  I have a view which
> produces a block showing the brief content, one appearance per event
> regardless of the event schedule.  So far so good.
>
> The "natural" sort order is apparently content creation order, but I want to
> sort the view to list each event once by the soonest "Happening" date per
> event. This causes an entry in the view for EACH date in EACH event.  I've
> tried aggregation and gotten aggravation.  (-:  There is no combination of
> view options that lets me filter the events to one occurrence per event and
> sort by "Happening" date.  I thought I might avoid the problem with a single
> occurrence date field that simply copied the first "Happening" date, but I
> found no way to mirror a field.  It is really a double selection: select the
> unique events then select the earliest "Happening" date, for each event. I'm
> not exactly sure how I'd write that in SQL, but I am reasonably sure that it
> can be done.
>
> Does anybody have any insight into how this particular problem is solved?
>
> Chris.
>
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