Drupal view with node reference and cck3 multigroup field

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I'm using Views2 and cck3 and am having trouble creating a Drupal view that allows me to display multigroup fields while using arguments.

Content Types:

  1. Person (Fields: title)
  2. Quote (Multigroups: quote, Fields: person_name, text)

Inside of the person content type I've got a field for name (title). Inside of the quote content type, I've got a multigroup field that contains two other fields. The first is a node reference to the person content type, and the second is a text field (what is being quoted).

The thought behind this is that what is being quoted could be a dialog between 2 or more people, which is why this is in a multigroup.

QUOTE 1
person a: lorem ipsum
person b: lorem ipsum dolor
person a: sit amet

QUOTE 2
person c: new quote text from a new person

QUOTE 3
person a: new quote text

I'm able to create a view that displays all of the quotes and groups dialogs similarly to how is displayed above, however I can't figure out how to create a view that does the same thing but using the person as an argument.

I don't want to use a filter as I want the url to be /quote/person-name.

When going to /quote/person-a it should return the entire quote for all multigroups that contain Person A.

QUOTE 1
person a: lorem ipsum
person b: lorem ipsum dolor
person a: sit amet

QUOTE 2
person a: new quote text

but what I get are items that only contain Person A.

QUOTE 1
person a: lorem ipsum
person a: sit amet

QUOTE 2
person a: new quote text

Playing around with various view options (like relationships) I was able to create this:

QUOTE 1
person a: lorem ipsum
person a: lorem ipsum dolor
person a: sit amet

QUOTE 2
person a: new quote text

It contains all items in the multigroup, quote, but replaces all of the names with Person A.

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1 Answers

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I'm not familiar with Multigroup, so I'm not sure if it's possible solely using Views, but I can think of two alternatives:

1) Use a Taxonomy and "tag" your Quotes with the names (or node IDs) of the people involved. This can be set up so that the tags are automatically added/updated whenever a Quote is saved.

2) Add a Computed Field to the Quote type that will hold the names as a string with some delimiter (for example, "/"). Then you can simply add an argument using that field (with the Contains operator).