Hi Nelson, A clever idea :). Unfortunately we are using categories so this won't work. But you just inspired me: I can tag the article by the author username and then customize the tag macros to hide all author name tags. I am sure this will work :-).
Daniel On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Nelson Chamberlain < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel > > Could you assign each author their own category? (Bob Smith, John Doe, > etc). That would allow you to display all articles by the same author by > selecting their category. > > The biggest problem would then be if you also needed to view their articles > by non-author categories, e.g., if an article written by Bob is assigned to > the category "Bob" it cannot be assigned to a second category "Software". > > But if each author typically writes on only one topic, then assigning each > author their own category could work. > > Nelson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Ruan [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Listing Articles by the Same Author > > Hi Dave, > > Unfortunately we have just one blog. So that won't work. > > How about doing a search against a username? I tried to use the Lucence > syntax to specify a field search but got no luck with that. > > Daniel > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Daniel Ruan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I have a blog with multiple contributors. Is there a way to display all > > the > > > articles from the same author? > > > > You can only do that if you have a "site wide" blog, i.e. one that > > aggregates entries from across all blogs on your entire Roller site. > > In a site-wide blog, you get the Site Model AKS the $site object, > > which supports a method that returns a pager with just entries from > > one author: > > > > public Pager getWeblogEntriesPager(WeblogWrapper queryWeblog, > > User user, int sinceDays, int length) > > > > Take a look at the Roller Template Guide for more information. > > > > Hope that helps... > > > > - Dave > > >
