How to create monthly archive block

By chunty on 23 Nov 2011 at 21:16 UTC

I want to create a block with an archive of the format:

2011
2010
2009

Clicking say 2011 would then give me all posts in 2011 and then the block would show:

2011
- December
- November
- October
- etc
- etc
2010
2009

Clicking say november would give me just posts for Nov 2011. I know how to make the view to filter the posts but I don't know how to create the grouped expandable block, can anyone help

Chris

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VM commented 23 November 2011 at 22:31

http://drupal.org/project/views = has within a default archive view

else see: http://drupal.org/project/archive

Close but no cigar!

chunty commented 24 November 2011 at 13:38

Thanks for your response - I thought I might get this answer. Yes it does but that not grouped by year as far as I know so you'll get

Dec 2011
Nov 2011
Oct 2011
etc
etc

I'm looking to have it grouped by year - do you know how to do that?

Chris

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VM commented 24 November 2011 at 15:48

clone the view, edit the date field it's grouping on to do so by year.

Can't see how

chunty commented 24 November 2011 at 16:23

I hope you don't think I'm taking the mick asking all these questions but I can't see a way to set it by year - would you be to provide step by step instructions?

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VM commented 24 November 2011 at 16:36

I have no pre-conceived notions. At moment I can't provide a step by step as it's a holiday and I'm not where hear an install to look at the view.

edit: I set up a quick test site.
Add a new contextual filter (content: year)
delete the default contextual filter (content: year + month)

save the view

test

Ah right you're in the US (no

chunty commented 24 November 2011 at 16:44

Ah right you're in the US (no holiday for us in UK)

I really appreciate the help, yup I've got that far - I can make the view but not the block with the filters - this guy has managed it here http://deglos.com/blog but I can't figure out how, tho he may have built it custom.

I've been through this http://www.latenightpc.com/blog/archives/2008/09/28/replacing-the-wordpr... with a pretty fine tooth comb but all it does is give you view not the block

If you get any more inspiration let me know, and I figure out how I'll post it back.

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VM commented 24 November 2011 at 16:50

The block is a block display. similar to that in the archive view.

I'd assume its grouping on year and on month.

Evidentially, i'm not understanding exactly what the trouble is at this point.

Sorry I worded that badly

chunty commented 24 November 2011 at 17:00

Ok let me rephrase that

It's not that I can't make the block (I realise this is just another way of displaying the same thing). Its that I can't get the grouping by month and year to work...

Evidentially I'm not really understanding how you have manage to make it work :)

Chris

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VM commented 24 November 2011 at 17:05

I didn't group by month and year. I thought you had the month part worked out so I only worked on a way to handle year which is what I thought you were having trouble with

so you need two contextual filters
first one year
second one month