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Coded myself into a corner and in urgent need of a solution.

Scenario:

I am creating a digital ‘magazine’ that is released on a weekly basis. Each release/issue is made up of listings that are authored by various authors. These listings are related to a master page which acts as the issue’s table of contents.

One of the feature requests is that users should be able to filter listings by an individual author. The filtered results should be limited to the specific issue or master page that they are related too.  I have tried passing the author_id as a segment variable and using the following:

{exp:channel:entries channel="auctions_weekly_master" show_future_entries="yes" author_id="{segment_4}" dynamic="no" status="open|closed"}

    {reverse_related_entries channel="auctions_weekly_listings"}

    {exp:gwcode_categories channel="auctions_weekly_listings" entry_id="{entry_id}" style="linear" backspace="1"}
    <li data-id="id-{count}" class="clearfix item three columns eq {cat_id} author_{author_id}" >
     <div class="one_third triggerBox">
      <div class="padder clearfix">
       {cat_name}, {/exp:gwcode_categories}
       <a href="http://{title_permalink=%27auctions-weekly/entry%27}" class="triggerLink">{aw_primary_image}{exp:imgsizer:size src="{image}" width="270" height="188" alt="{alternate}"}{/aw_primary_image}</a>
       <h3><a href="http://{title_permalink=%27auctions-weekly/entry%27}" class="triggerLink">{title}</a></h3>
<p>       <a href="http://{title_permalink=%27auctions-weekly/entry%27}" class="link">view</a><br />
      </div><br />
     </div><!--triggerBox--><br />
    </li><br />
    {/reverse_related_entries}<br />
    {/exp:channel:entries

No luck. How can I filter listings by author, limited by their relationship to the master page? Would really appreciate some help on this one. Got a deadline that is fast approaching.

Hi Greg,

Ok - let’s get a look at other limiting factors that could help us.

hese listings are related to a master page which acts as the issue’s table of contents.

Is that “page” a channel entry itself, or a template? If the master page is a channel entry, we may be able to use start_on= and stop_before= date parameters.

Can I see the template that represents the master page? Reverse-related may not be the best path - we may be looking at perhaps passing some variables using embeds to pull the “related” entries.

Cheers,