We will have around 200 files and we want them to be dynamically selected by means of a view based on the type (video, audio, docx, pdf, xlsx), words in the title and description as well as a hierarchical taxonomy. Once a file is selected out of the view, we want it displayed or played (if audio or video) right from the page (i.e. not having to be downloaded and then accessed as a separate step). The most important part is the onscreen list and selection. We could live w/o the player part.
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When I create custom layout templates I put them in /layouts/custom/my_layout
Note: you can split modules and layouts between contrib and custom...
Posted2 days 23 hours ago by Martin Price | System Horizons Ltd (yorkshirepudding) on:
This post explains how to do this in Drupal 7. In Backdrop, File Entity is already part of core. You will need to download and install module Views Field View.
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Posted4 days 7 hours ago by Alejandro Cremaschi (argiepiano) on:
After alot of trials, i have done the obvious and translated the whole block for different languages with each property condition as follows:
->propertyCondition('langcode', 'en...
Thanks so much! It's working now:
I was able to transfer the docroot files to the containing directory without the need for a second database or any manual configuration export/import/sync...
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We will have around 200 files and we want them to be dynamically selected by means of a view based on the type (video, audio, docx, pdf, xlsx), words in the title and description as well as a hierarchical taxonomy. Once a file is selected out of the view, we want it displayed or played (if audio or video) right from the page (i.e. not having to be downloaded and then accessed as a separate step). The most important part is the onscreen list and selection. We could live w/o the player part.