Posted by wonder95 on February 12, 2010 at 5:35pm
OK, fellow PDXers, I need some help on something I know some of us around here have experience with. What I need is pretty simple, but there are a few ways to do it.
I'm working on a site for car research news, and I have experts and articles. I'm using Content Profile, and for each expert, I need to display a dynamic list of the articles that have been written by that expert on his profile node. There are two main ways I can see to do it:
- Use Panels to take over the layout of the Profile node, and have a separate pane below the main node content that displays a view that lists the articles
- Something like views_attach that just attaches a view of the articles to the Profile node.
I've read about using Panels to take over a page display, and that would be my preference, because it offers the most flexibility, and I know people (such as shifthappens) have given presentations on this. However, if any one has better suggestions, I'm open to them.
Thanks.
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Could you possibly create a block view and pass it the user id as an argument to pull articles just from that user? Then add the block to the profile page.
I need to do the exact same
I need to do the exact same thing--at least as I gather from reading this post. I need to present some static text and other items along with the content profile nodes as a, sort of, mash-up for the user's profile. As a matter of fact, I am reference the content profile nodes externally from the 'My Profile' interface using direct links to the user/%/profile/specific-content-type. I'd like to insert some static intro text above the content profile node and then some other elements under it. I can't find a way to do it with views/panels.
@nrackleff, neat solution; although, I find it a clunky necessity for something so basic. I'll play with it to see if it works.
@wonder95, did you ever find a solution that you liked?
Possible Solution
u can create a block in a view with the following settings.
arguments: User:uid (do remember to check 'user id from url' under 'provide default argument').
now simply add whatever fields u want to display under the field section and also the filters if u want to show nodes of some specific type.
Now go to block settings page and place the newly generated block in some region.
Also configure this block and make is visible only under the url's like 'user/*'.
Hope it helps..
Regards..