Gossamer Forum: Products: DBMan: Customization: generate different data-pages from link

i have some sort of movie database, and till now everything works fine. people can only view the database, not delete, add or modify entries. i have fields like director, title, airdate, story. when i do a search, it lists all the fields. let's call this "data_full". what i want is a page that lists the titles, ordered by airdate, then i can click on the title and i get the "data_full" view for one entry. i guess this could be easily done with the long view/short view mod. i looked over it and it seemes like a lot needs to be changed. i wouldn't mind changing that, but i need more than two layouts. i think the normal "data_full" output is generated with

Code:

sub html_record

it would be nice to have different layouts, like

Code:

html_record_movies
html_record_directors
html_record_story

html_record_movies would list the name of the movie and the airdate, plus have a link to the "data_full" view
html_record_directors would list the movie title plus the name of the director
html_record_story would have title and story as a search result.

i don't want something like when you search for director, you get the html_record_directors view. a normal search should always display the "data_full" view: the other views should be called with a link, something like

Code:

../dbman/db.cgi?db=movies&uid=default&layout=directors&Directors=*

in a link would call the special html_record_directors layout.

mhm, i guess this sounds confusing... to sum it up: are different layouts possible, that are called throuh a link and list only some fields, but not all?