display and filter records

[electricarts]

Hi, 

for a site about adoption of dogs (laboratory beagles) we need a solution for display and filter records (700). Every record has identical fields (name of the dog, age, gender, pictures and name, address, phone number of the person who wants a dog and so on). It should be very easy for the admin of the site to make new entries/change entries and filter for specific entries in the backend. In the fronted there should be a possibility to filter entries too (maybe someone is searching a dog with a specific age).

How can i do that? Use Repeater Fields to create the records? There are about 60 entries (textfields, radio buttons, select fields ...) in every record. Is this "to much" or are Repeater Fields able to handle this? For the filter part i'm sure that the Lister Pro ist the right solution, right?

Mario

[Ivan Gretsky]

No need for repeaters here. Pages are the most common solution for most things and are a right choice for this case too. Make a dog template, create all the fields you need, assign fields to dog template. Place all dog pages under same root (something like dogs). You can configure all dog pages to be automatically placed under the dogs page on creation.

If you got the budget get ListerPro for admin - it will make finding the right page in the admin a breeze.  If you don't, you can create a custom Process module for that.

For the frontend filtering take a look at skyscrapers profile (live demo here).

[electricarts]

Hi Ivan,

thanks for your reply! I always forget that technically everything is a "page". ;-)