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Wonderful. I know how to create content types--you'll see I've added ones for news, testimonial, and resource. Scott, can I call you
on Monday to collaborate on getting them to display correctly?
Thanks!
Carol
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From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp@leximation.com]
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:02 PM
To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] Using taxonomies to organize/filter Products, Services, etc...
Hi...
I've been looking at how to use taxonomies to allow for the custom display of these special lists we want to maintain. It looks like
it should work, although I think we will have to create a custom "content type" for each type of list. It looks like you can define
a vocabulary of terms that can be associated with one or more content types. These "terms" would be the features or categories that
are assigned to the items and each vocabulary will only apply to each particular content type. I'm not seeing how to create a new
content type, other than one page on drupal.org that explained how to clone a module (like "story") and give it a new name .. unless
there's an easier way I guess that's how it is done.
On a test site, I've cloned the "page" content type module and made a "productitem" module .. and I've set up a vocabulary for this
content type and assigned some terms. I added some products and assigned terms to those products. In order to display a list of
filtered items, you specify the term IDs (1, 2, 3, ...) in a URL like .. taxonomy/term/1+4 .. I set up a sample page with hard-coded
links that filter on individual terms, and built a form with checkboxes and some javascript that builds the proper URL to display
the items that match the selected terms. You can give it a test drive at ..
http://iroots.net/drupaltest/products
I'm assuming that we'd want the checkbox type of interface, but I show the linking method as a possible alternative. This page also
has a link to add a new product (feel free to register and see what it's like to add these items). You'll note that the default
content type does not have an URL field .. so the URL would have to be included in the description. It seems like this would be
really nice to have as a separate field and then have the output formatted in a reasonable way.
Anyway .. just some experimenting .. let me know what you think.
...scott
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Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
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