Hi all

I've been thinking about creating a block which will catalogue my organisation's publications in a suitable way.

I've been looking at the Document Library but it appears as though it won't allow dead entries, i.e. entries which represent a publication but which don't actually link to a file. This is important for us because lots of our publications have no electronic version, but it's nonetheless important that they appear in the listing.

The current page looks like this:

http://www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/html/dplist.php...

which is just a huge table. Needless to say it gets broken and whatnot frequently when people edit it.

I was wondering how easy it would be to create a block which shows a form where the editor can specify a file link from the file manager (if there is one), and attributes like date, title, publication number and notes. The block then adds a row to the table in the appropriate place (ordered by publication number) and everything works fine. Ideally, the table could be sorted by its headings too.

I've looked at the Document Library addon but it doesn't support 'dead' entries, i.e. entries which don't like to anything.

Any thoughts?