[TYPO3-english] Viewhelper for Alphabetical Index

[Dirk Wenzel]

Hi Torsten,
that's great and your Gluck website is awesome.

Apropos funny coincidence: I'm in composers too: I'm building a site for 
Hans-Werner-Henze-Stiftung.

In the meantime I solved the task with tx_news tags (A,B,C and so on). 
Editors have to tag the content manually - but thats o.k. since the opus 
of 'my' composer is complete and counts only about 200 pieces and avoids 
the article conflict (il, der, the)

BTW why don't you put the whole extension into the TER? Its concept 
seems to be quite general and meets even scientific requirements.

Thank you very much for sharing!

Cheers
Dirk

Am 28.06.13 23:09, schrieb Torsten Schrade:
> Hi Dirk,
>
>> I'm using extension news (tx_news) to build a catalog raisonné.
>> I'd like to group all entries in list view by the first character
>> (alphabetical index).
>>
>> Hiding all characters without matching entries would be nice.
>>
>> Is there any Viewhelper or another trick to archieve that?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Cheers Dirk
>
> Now that's a funny coincidence… some months ago we did a catalogue
> raisonné extension for one of our digital humanities projects [1] and
> needed an alphabet ViewHelper for displaying alphabetical registers [2].
> The ViewHelper is used in a f:for loop and segmentizes ordered lists of
> strings by comparing starting letter(s). It creates only letters for
> which there are entries. Here are two gists:
>
> * Template: https://gist.github.com/tesselation/5888003
> * ViewHelper: https://gist.github.com/tesselation/5888020
>
> Maybe it's of some use to you. Have fun,
> Torsten
>
> [1] http://www.gluck-gesamtausgabe.de/gwv.html
> [2] http://www.gluck-gesamtausgabe.de/gwv/werkregister.html
>