Posted by markwk on July 30, 2011 at 7:07pm
I have a couple data heavy sites (one about houses and another for listing classes) with content that has various tags and cck_fields that I would like to make more sortable according to different user search/filter criteria. Basically be good to limit according to X or Y or whatever.
Wondering what the best modules and techniques to do this the "Drupal" Way?
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usually I just do Views w/
usually I just do Views w/ exposed filters. Sometimes through in Views Hacks module so that you can do some auto submitting of values. For sorting I just do table display in the view and then make the columns sortable.
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
Exhibit
The Exhibit Module is very good for that! http://drupal.org/project/exhibit
However, some tweaks are needed to make it more seo friendly, i.e. a second view which is the landing point for search engine bots. We've managed over a JS click-binding.
Dependent on the amount of data, it tends to get slow - version 3 is supposed to fix that.
Usually doing publication sites with it. See here for example: http://wi1.uni-erlangen.de/research/publications-exhibit, See here for tutorial: http://balanceonline.org/publications-exhibit/tutorial
Best,
Dominik