I'm in the process of creating my first NewtonBook. Things have gone well so
far -- all of the data is in. Now I'd like to make a better overview system.
I've read the BookMaker PDF and it appears to indicate that I can do what I
want, but I haven't been able to get it all to work yet... Hopefully someone
on the list has already done this (or knows of a Book that does it so that I
know it is at least possible).
Basically, I want to have multiple "indexes" to the same data in the
overview. So, as an example, say that I have a Book full of data on soccer
players. Each page lists their name and stats. Now, I want to be able "drill
down" through the overview both alphabetically and by team name. So, let's
say I have this data:
John Doe, Red Team
Bob Bones, Blue Team
Jane Doe, Red Team
In the overview, I would want that something like this:
Alphabetical
A
B
Bones, Bob
C
D
Doe, Jane
Doe, John
E
...
Team
Blue Team
Bones, Bob
Green Team
Red Team
Doe, Jane
Doe, John
...
So, after clicking the overview, I could go in alphabetically or by team name
and get to the same data.
I've tried things like:
.subject 1 browserOnly name=Alpha
Alphabetical
.subject 2 browserOnly browser=Alpha
A
.subject 2 browserOnly browser=Alpha
B
.subject 3 browserOnly browser=Alpha goto=BobBones
Bones, Bob
[...]
.subject 1 browserOnly name=Teams
Team
.subject 2 browserOnly browser=Teams
Blue Team
.subject 3 browserOnly browser=Teams goto=BobBones
Bones, Bob
[...]
.story StartsPage name=BobBones
Bob Bones
Team: Blue
Stats: Blah
[...]
It seems to set up the structure correctly, but doesn't really function as I
would expect. It gets confused -- and clicking on anyone except the first
person causes it to just jump to the first one anyhow.
Any thoughts are appeciated! Thanks!
- John...
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