Posted by tdodson on August 16, 2010 at 1:32pm
Hi Everyone,
I'm working on a simple resume page on my personal site using CCK and Views. The view displays the fields in the custom content-type "position," sorted descending by the "from date." Each position has a "from date" and an optional "to date."
So, here's my problem: It's easy to display that I worked somewhere from "November 1999 - November 2000", but is there a straightforward way to display the following range: "November 2008 - date," as in, I still work there. I don't see anything in Views that would let me rewrite the value of the "to date" field if it is left empty; that would be nice. Hmm; stumped for now.
Thanks,
Tom
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Tom - I believe you would
Tom - I believe you would have to use a theme override to do that easily. Is that something you're familiar with?
Theme Override
I'm not familiar with the term "theme override." It's a custom theme, though, based on Zen. I wrote all the CSS myself, so if it's a CSS thing I could do it. I can probably figure out a way to use the CSS "content" property to do it.
That's how I added piping to the top and bottom menus on this site: http://osc.hul.harvard.edu. On that site, though, IE didn't like either the "content" property or the "after" added on to the "li" selector and so I had to set up a different bit of code for the menus in my ie.css file.
Oh, btw, this is the URL, though it is not even close to ready for prime-time yet. http://dodsont.champsnotchumps.org/
Thanks again for advice; it's great to be part of such an informed and active community.
td
Thomas Dodson
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Check mine
http://nanwich.com/work_experience
I "cheated." Since you are going to absolutely need a Word version if you actively looking for a job, you can have Word save it as HTML and then clean that up. And that what you see on my site.
BTW, I work in Technology Square just a short distance from Harvard. If you need some personal help, just let me know.
But who says the date field has to be date-formatted. You could always just use a simple text field and then you won't have to worry about what's in it.
Nancy Dru
If you are just starting in Drupal,
I would have a separate content type (flag) "current job" that you could turn on or off. If you are advanced to the point of theme overrides and/or CSS you could do something from there. For ease, I would just use a "from" date and no "to" date, then a text cck field with one option (Current Project) that would display with no label right above or below the date.