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Hi all, this is a complicated one…

In a site I’m working on “events” entered into the events weblog are related to “venues” which have been added to a separate venues weblog. Many events may be related to a single venue entry. I’m using 1.6.9.

Now… I’m using dynamic parameters to help refine a listing of events weblog entries by their “venue”. Unfortunately, at the moment, it’s only returning one event when, in some cases, a particular venue may have up to ten.

Here’s how I’m doing it:

The form that sets the dynamic parameter:

<select name="search:venue_test" id="search:venue_test">
<option value="">Select Venue</option>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="venues"}
{reverse_related_entries limit="1"}
{if no_reverse_related_entries}<!-- comment out the venue name if it's got no related entries{/if}
<option value="{venue_test}">{/reverse_related_entries}
{venue_name}
{reverse_related_entries limit="1"}{if no_reverse_related_entries}finish commenting out the venue name -->{/if}</option>
{/reverse_related_entries}{/exp:weblog:entries}
</select>

The value returned by “{venue_test}” is a number - this field is a Relationship field. This number is passed as a dynamic parameter to the results page which displays results using this code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="festival-2010-events"  orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic_parameters="search:event_title|search:event_days|search:venue_test"}

Like I said, the system is working (even if it’s a bit of a hack) but it’s only returning one result per venue. Is the relationship number unique to a relationship, or unique to a venue? Worded differently… is that number only valid for one relationship with the venue concerned? If so, can anyone suggest a means by which it might be possible to search weblog entries by their related articles.

Thanks,

John.

John,

The value returned by “{venue_test}” is a number - this field is a Relationship field.

I think your issue here might be that only custom fields of the type “Text Input”, “Textarea”, and “Drop-down Lists” are searched with the search:field_name= parameter.

I would try however just creating a blank template with just a weblog entry tag with the id of a venue entry hard-coded. Then try and return events via relationship tag so you can confirm it is working before heading into dynamic parameters territory.

Hey,

Thanks for the response. I’ve done a test, just using search:venue_test (without dynamic params) and get the same return - what’s interesting is that it finds one entry for the venue I’m looking for, but stops there.

I suppose my original question still stands… is the number stored in the “events” entry unique to the relationship for that entry in events or common to all entries which are related to the same venue.

I’ll keep hacking on this one and post any progress here. Any further help would be great.

thanks,

John.

As John suggested, trying to get this to work without dynamic parameters first might be the way to go. Using relationships that way is certainly novel. Let me move this to the CodeShare Corner for you. Thanks.