[support] approach with multiple levels of data

Justin Gruenberg justin.gruenberg at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 23:44:43 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:22 PM, sebastian <inforazor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Justin, others,
>
> Sorry if my description was not clear.
>
> Here is the solution I am implementing:
>
> http://fountain-city.com/sample.png
>
> Only, at the moment I can't use "N Rows" in a layout because that has to
> be predetermined by the layout. So my question was: is there a way to
> make a layout with a dynamic number of rows, as apposed to a fixed number?
>
> The length [N count] would be controlled by the number of sub-array
> Nodes [CCK category field] for a given page [another CCK field].
>
> So 1 CCK field for PAGE [first argument] and another CCK field for ROW
> [human value is specific per page, but relates to the row it appears in,
> the second argument].
>
> Each row has 3 or more views in it, and each view will call up more than
> one node.
>
> Each row also has a header, which controls the accordion roll up of the
> sub area. That part, including creating a custom Panels Style Plugin so
> that the top item of each row is in it's own distinct DIV, I have under
> the belt.
>
> I hope this is more clear now!
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.

I think you're over engineering this problem.  I see what you're
trying to do... but wheres this data come from?  What is this data?

Just a note--you can put as much content as you want in a region in
panels.  You don't need a separate panel template.


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