<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bill,<div><br></div><div>I've installed Advanced Help, studied the documentation for Arg in Views, and experimented with both Arg and Attachment. I still haven't been able to make any progress.</div><div><br></div><div>I think that what you suggest may misconceive what I'm trying to do. It looks like your procedure would produce a list of entries in "Joe's Blog" and another page listing the entries in "Sue's Blog."</div><div><br></div><div>What I want is one page that lists all blogs on the site:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Joe's Blog</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sue's Blog,<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>etc.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have produced that in Views. What I can't seem to manage is a way to include links to those titles that would take me to the top level of each--the equivalent of </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href = "/blog/joe">Joe's blog</a><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href = "/blog/sue">Sue's blog</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have available the variable $account_blog_url (from Profile) to supply the url, and as a workaround I have managed to replace the normal Drupal link from user-picture to "user/$uid" with a link to "blog/$uid" in template_preprocess_user_picture. That is a clunky sort of workaround, though--requiring that I instruct the user, "Click on the picture to go to the blog." There is no template_preprocess_user_blogname, which is a customized field I introduced into the Profile. If there were, a simple Drupal linking at the preprocess level would seem to be the thing to do. A programmer would probably know how to do such a thing, but I don't. And<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro'; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "> I simply can't conceive of how to do it in Views.</span></span></div><!--StartFragment--><div><br></div><div>So, I guess I need more guidance if you have time and energy to provide it.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jul 21, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello, Steve,<br><br>First, I'd like to echo what Shai said -- ask away, as we have all been <br>there.<br><br>Second, re your specific situation, would it work to filter your blog <br>based on username?<br><br>If so, create a Views argument that filters based on username -- and, <br>you can specify the title of the page with the argument setting -- and, <br>you could set a header for the entire view.<br><br>Ping back if this is insufficient detail --<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Bill<br><br>Steve Hays wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Shai,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Many thanks both for your help and your kindness.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Since you urge me not to knock my head against the wall too long, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">here's a problem I have probably spent 10 hours on and not produced a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">reasonable solution to--just a hacked work-around.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I want my students to be able to develop individual blogs. I have <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">developed (via Views in Drupal 6.3) a page that lists all Member <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Blogs. I have added a blog_name field to the Profiles page, and <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">obviously I would like that name to be linked to the individual blog. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The blog's default url is (of course) blogs/$uid. I have constructed <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a blog_url field in Profile so I can pull it along with the blog_name <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in Views.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">But that makes for an ugly page display: My_Blog http:// etc.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What I would like, of course is to use the $account_blog_url variable <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in an a href statement so the url address is invisible to the user, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but I don't know how to get Views or Profiles to produce such a link.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any ideas?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks again,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Steve<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Shai Gluskin wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Steve,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Do NOT feel stupid. We've all been there and continue to be there in <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">many ways.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It's way more efficient in use of the world's resources (which <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">includes your brain power) for you to ask and get quick help -- it <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">took me three minutes to write that email, than for you to bang your <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">head, potentially for hours. People have helped me so many times and <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I'm sure you will help others -- or already have. No knowledge in <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Drupal is "comprehensive" -- you don't have to be a "ninja" or <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">anything special to answer a question that you know the answer to.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Regarding your situation. Congratulations on figuring it out.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Indeed, no need to use the Drupal l() function.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Regarding the href-- there are different opinions on this, and <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">sometimes it depends on whether you have a multi-site or not. But my <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">strong preference for any single installation site is for all href's <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to pages inside the site to be "root relative." All references <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">should start with a forward slash after the first quotes. In this <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">case I would no need to provide any specific page path since it is <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the default home page. Here is how I would do the href:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="/"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">best,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Shai<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>-- <br><br>Bill Fitzgerald<br><a href="http://funnymonkey.com">http://funnymonkey.com</a><br>FunnyMonkey -- Tools for Teachers<br>ph. 503 897 7160<br><br>-- <br>[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>