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Let me get back to you about Monday .. I may not be available.
Yes .. I saw those other content types .. when I try news or resource, I
get an Accesss Denied message.
...scott
Carol Geyer wrote:
>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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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