I've been playing with K2 for use with the web based version of a local small newspaper.

ogdenindie.com/

Primarily about 6 Categories of articles, under parent category of Stories.

STORIES>Dining, Editor, Community, Arts & Music....

My question is how best to arrange them by issue, ie: July 2009.

I guess I could use tags but that's not really how I'd like to represent it. It would be better if it was an extra field.

In exploring this I seem to come up short. Ideally I'd like to have the following.

1) Extra Field that is select box
2) Ability to add new item to select box on the fly
3) Front End - Issue Text would be clickable, just like a category.

Perhaps this brings up the need for another type of element "group" that behaved similar to category. Or maybe ability to be in more than one category would solve this.

Just thought I'd put that out there to see if anyone had any better ways to handle this.

Did you ever find a solution for this problem? I have the exact same issue I'm trying to resolve.

Hi there,

Kind of late for this as I see it is an old post.
Try adding an extra field called "Date" and "Type" (text field), then link to the extra field. Play around with modules and menu links to get the display you want.

Cheers!
irish

Not too late. The project I was asking about is just getting off the ground now. Thank you the reply. I will try and remember to come back and let you know how it turns out.