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Hi all,

I’m running into a wall trying to get this section of my website setup. I’m fairly new to ExpressionEngine so anything helps.

I have an “Artists” section. Within that section is a Band that has subpages to it. So the architecture looks like this:

Artists
  Band Name
      Overview
      About the Band
      Tour
      Photos
      Video
      Music

I’m having trouble figuring out how to setup the channels and fields so the Artists index page will pull the band image and band name. When you click on one of those, it goes to their overview page where the submenu for the band will be. I’m using Structure. I also have an Event page that I’ve setup where the user can enter in all the events and then the “tour” page of the Band section gets populated by the events that are associated with that Band. But I haven’t figured out how to sort those yet.

Can someone guide me in the right direction on how to set this up channel and channel field wise?

Ok assuming you have a template group called /artists…

Create a Channel for bands
Create a Channel field group fo bands and include these custom fields:
1. Overview
2. About
3. Logo (image)
4. Photo (band photo if needed)

Create a Channel for Tour dates
Create a Channel field group for Tours and include a Related entries custom field, assign this to the Bands channel, now when you add a tour date you can associate it with a band. Then you can call in a bands tour dates on their page using the {reverse_related_entries} tag.

You could use the same logic for photo’s video and music, that way you can create an archive of say all photos from all bands, or just restrict to one band.

Thank you!

I have that all setup. My problem is on the index page of /artists I have this setup to pull image and title of the band.

When you click on either one, I want it to direct you to the “overview” page of the band. Then from there the “overview” page will show the submenu for the band page (overview, about, tour, etc)

I have templates created for each page of the submenu.

So in Structure I currently have:

Artists
    Band Name

Any ideas on how to get the info from the index page of Artists to link to the overview template which will hold all of the individual subpages?

Thanks in advance for your help - really appreciate it!

I’d suggest creating a template called “band” in your /artists group, eg /artists/band - you can then use this template as the base for you band page with a url suhc as site.com/artists/band/band-name