Mental Block! Help Please: View Category

Hey all,

Im having a major mental block.

I have a view that is categories by year, month and date in descending order.

In the column after the date i need to categories the task sections into 2 parts (Testing Stage One and Testing Stage Two).

The only problem is i dont think its as simple as going into the properties and selecting the categories…

as i need to to display all the most recent data under each task sections…so for instance…

2008 - April - 21/04/08 - Testing Stage One

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

Etc

2008 - April - 21/04/08 - Testing Stage Two

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

Etc

At present my view is displaying all the recent view records under each heading for the past 7 months and I would like to minimise this down to two sections (Test stage one and Test stage two) but showing the recent records at the top.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks

Gem

Subject: Mental Block! Help Please: View Category

Hi,

Could you give more info on the way you want your data? I’m not sure if what you want is:

2008 - April - 21/04/08 - Testing Stage One ← This is Category

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

Etc

2008 - April - 21/04/08 - Testing Stage Two

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

or if you would like something like this:

Testing Stage One ← This is Category

2008 - April - 21/04/08  <-- This is also Category

    View Record One

    View Record Two

    View Record Three

Testing Stage Two

2008 - April - 21/04/08

   View Record One

   View Record Two

   View Record Three

Please give more info and maybe I can help.

Subject: RE: Mental Block! Help Please: View Category

Hi Carlos,

I really would like something like this…

2008 - April - 21/04/08 (This is categoriesed and cascades down)

Testing Stage One (I need this to be categorised i think?)

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

20-/03/08 -

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

19-/02/08 -

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

etc


2008 - April - 21/04/08 (This is categoriesed and cascades down)

Testing Stage Two (I need this to be categorised i think?)

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

20/03/08

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

19/02/08

View Record One

View Record Two

View Record Three

Etc

So all the views for test stage one will be put in descending order as shown above…and then the same for test stage two…

Does that make sense?

Subject: RE: Mental Block! Help Please: View Category

If you want to divide documents into stage one and stage two your first category has to be exactly that. You would then have to categorize by date and you would get something like this:

Testing Stage One

2008 - April

  21/04/08 Record One

  20/04/08 Record Two

2008 - March

  19/03/08 Record One

Testing Stage Two

2008 - April

  21/04/08 Record One

  20/04/08 Record Two

2008 - March

  19/03/08 Record One

I’m not sure if that helps, but if you try and categorize the way you showed you would actually get something like this:

2008 - April - 21/04/08

Testing Stage One

  View Record One

  View Record Two

Testing Stage Two

  View Record One

  View Record Two

2008 - April - 20/04/08

Testing Stage One

  View Record One

  View Record Two

Testing Stage Two

  View Record One

  View Record Two

Not what you want I think.