<p>What about using a <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/categories" rel="nofollow">category group</a> for your designers as well?</p>

<p>Add your "Specialty" and "Locations" category fields to a "Designers" category's field layout and then use a "Designers" category field on your blog entries to assign the designer.</p>

<p><em>Sorry for the confusion with my other answer, after re-reading your question today I noticed that I headed in the wrong direction. A "Designers" category would probably be the right way to do it, even if you had the ability to add a second channel section.</em></p>

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Ahhhh, why do I tend to over complicate things? :P I guess using a category group for "designers" is exactly right for what I was thinking, carlcs! Just not sure how the code for the category's field layout would be like, hmmm... docs here I come...
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carlcs
<p>You could indeed use entry types to separate your "Designer" and "Blog" entries, but that wouldn't be a very good way to do it. The type of content is just too different to make them a good fit for a single channel section.</p>

<p>But let's try it anyways:</p>

<p>Basically you'd need to <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/relations" rel="nofollow">relate</a> the entries, each "Designer" entry with all linked "Blog" entries. To make such relations possible, you add an <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/entries-fields" rel="nofollow">entries field</a> "Designer" to the "Blog" entry type. Entries fields can be configured to only show entries of select sections. With a separate "Designers" section you could nicely filter the entries available. If you have one combined channel, where you mix "Designer" and "Blog" entries – even if they are in separate entry types – you will always have them next to each other in your entries field modal.</p>

<p>The ability to further filter the sources available on an entries field other than a filter on the section will <a href="https://plus.google.com/112173526450245116573/posts/2NHbdQTsKiL" rel="nofollow">most likely</a> come with an update to Craft though.</p>

<p>But besides this (current) problem, you could definitely mis-use that one single channel for your design. Another thing to mention here, it'd probably be a bit more of work to set this all up.</p>

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carlcs
<p>Let's say I have an entry type named "Designers", and I have:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>A title field "Full Name" </p></li>
<li><p>A categories field "Specialty"</p></li>
<li><p>Another categories field "Location"</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Now I want each designer (that is, each entry) from the "Designers" entry type to link to a another page showing blog entries on which this designer's work is featured.</p>

<p>I'm sorry if I'm not being clear enough... Basically, it's a basic directory what I want to build. People can find designers by specialty and location (not sure if categories is the right way to do it...any suggestions?).</p>

<p>My question is how can I create that page showing the entries. Maybe this can't be done with entry types and I need a separated channel?!</p>

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2014-08-16T07:31:34.337Z
Rafael, is it right that you want to accomplish this all with a Craft personal license? Because that's what I read between the lines...
carlcs
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Yup, thanks for the explanation! I'm thinking maybe it's possible to do something like this: visualcache.com/features/by/
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Pages for each entry from an entry type?
# Pages for each entry from an entry type?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-16)

Let's say I have an entry type named "Designers", and I have:

* A title field "Full Name"
* A categories field "Specialty"
* Another categories field "Location"

Now I want each designer (that is, each entry) from the "Designers" entry type to link to a another page showing blog entries on which this designer's work is featured.

I'm sorry if I'm not being clear enough... Basically, it's a basic directory what I want to build. People can find designers by specialty and location (not sure if categories is the right way to do it...any suggestions?).

My question is how can I create that page showing the entries. Maybe this can't be done with entry types and I need a separated channel?!

**Tags:** url, entry-type
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Rafael, is it right that you want to accomplish this all with a Craft personal license? Because that's what I read between the lines...  
> **username_0**: Yup, thanks for the explanation! I'm thinking maybe it's possible to do something like this: visualcache.com/features/by/  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-17. Score: 3

What about using a [category group](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/categories) for your designers as well?

Add your "Specialty" and "Locations" category fields to a "Designers" category's field layout and then use a "Designers" category field on your blog entries to assign the designer.

*Sorry for the confusion with my other answer, after re-reading your question today I noticed that I headed in the wrong direction. A "Designers" category would probably be the right way to do it, even if you had the ability to add a second channel section.*

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Ahhhh, why do I tend to over complicate things? :P I guess using a category group for "designers" is exactly right for what I was thinking, carlcs! Just not sure how the code for the category's field layout would be like, hmmm... docs here I come...  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-16. Score: 1

You could indeed use entry types to separate your "Designer" and "Blog" entries, but that wouldn't be a very good way to do it. The type of content is just too different to make them a good fit for a single channel section.

But let's try it anyways:

Basically you'd need to [relate](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/relations) the entries, each "Designer" entry with all linked "Blog" entries. To make such relations possible, you add an [entries field](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/entries-fields) "Designer" to the "Blog" entry type. Entries fields can be configured to only show entries of select sections. With a separate "Designers" section you could nicely filter the entries available. If you have one combined channel, where you mix "Designer" and "Blog" entries – even if they are in separate entry types – you will always have them next to each other in your entries field modal.

The ability to further filter the sources available on an entries field other than a filter on the section will [most likely](https://plus.google.com/112173526450245116573/posts/2NHbdQTsKiL) come with an update to Craft though.

But besides this (current) problem, you could definitely mis-use that one single channel for your design. Another thing to mention here, it'd probably be a bit more of work to set this all up.


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