Install glossary module

I just finished installing the Glossary module in three Drupal 4.7x websites, so I thought I'd write out some basic steps here:

Where is the Glossary?

One of the first things to try to understand is that, although we will install a "Glossary Module", all the glossary content is actually entered and created in "Administer>Categories*" as entries in a Vocabulary. Although Taxonomy Vocabularies are quite powerful, and contain many other uses (many of which I don't yet understand or I'm not yet aware of), this article only explains Vocabularies as they relate to the Glossary Module. The Glossary Module takes the Vocabulary entries and turns them into one or more Glossaries. Each time you create a new "Vocabulary", you are creating (the potential for) a new Glossary. (The Vocabulary terms are only turned into Glossaries when chosen in the "Administer>Input Formats" section.) (More about this later below.)
*Note: Although the Glossary content is entered through "Administer>Categories>Vocabularies" , don't get this confused with the optional, but different, Category Module, which adds it's own "Administer>Categories" menu listing.

What is the purpose of the Glossary Module, and what does it do?

Creates Glossary Page(s), the Glossary Module creates a glossary page of all your terms, with the definitions. You may create one or multiple glossaries.

Terms Identified:, on any page on your website, whenever you use any of the words in the glossary, those words will be identified on each page. You can choose whether the words will be identified by being underlined (with a broken line), or using a superscript letter (or word), such as the superscript letter "i", like thisⁱ (You can actually type in any letter or word that you want), or by using a small icon by the word. (You can also chose whatever icon you like)(see instructions below)

Definitions Available on "Hover", whenever the visitor "hovers" the mouse pointer over any one of the identified terms, the definition will "pop up" in a small box for about 6 seconds. This way the definitions of all the words in your glossary will be readily available every time you use any of those words.

Instantly Go to Glossary. If you click on the underlined word, or one of the identifiers (the superscript "i" or the small icon), you will immediately be taken to the full glossary page.

Full Page Definitions, you can attach full page (or multiple pages) of descriptions to any, or all, of the glossary terms. (see instructions for this at the bottom). If you have attached any full pages to any glossary term, the pop up definition will still work, but when you click on the word, you will be taken to the full page descriptions instead of to the glossary page. If you have multiple pages attached to the glossary term, then you will be shown the teasers of all the definition pages. You can then choose to look at any of those pages.

Installing the Glossary Module

More detailed instructions (for some of the following steps) can be found in the Glossary Readme file.

1. First download the Glossary Module from http://drupal.org/project/glossary onto your computer.(Some website control panels allow you to upload an archived file; zip, tar, etc. and then unarchive it after the file is on your website in a folder. If this is the case, then just upload the Glossary Module tar or zip file to your website. Otherwise, unzip the file on your computer, then ftp the whole folder to you website folder.)

Configuring the Glossary

1. On your Drupal website, go to "Administer>Modules" and enable the glossary module and save the new configuration.

Glossary Administration: Finally, Choose which type of user(s) that you want to be able to administer the glossary, such as all "authenticated users" or only members in a "specific user role", or just the "administrator(s)". To make this choice, go to "Administer>Access Control>Permissions. Scroll down to "glossary module" and enable your chosen user role(s).

Your Glossary Module should be working now. Go back to "Administer>Categories>Vocabularies" to enter your glossary/vocabulary terms. I would suggest that you keep your terms down to one brief paragraph. This paragraph will display all through the website whenever a user's mouse pointer "hovers" over the indicated word; it will only display for about 6 seconds. Keep your paragraph down to about 6 seconds of comfortable reading. (Yes, a user can go back to the indicated word and get the definition to pop up again, but why should they have to? You can put more detailed definitions or explanations on other page(s), which can be connected to any glossary/vocabulary term(s).)

Adding Full Page Definitions

Do you want to allow any registered user to add full page definitions to the glossary, or do you want only specific persons to have this ability? This is controlled through the "Administration>Input Formats". If you want every authenticated user to be able to add full pages to the glossary, then you would enable the glossary with each of the input formats available to those users. However, if you only want specific users to have that abililty, Use or create an input format that only those users, or type of users, will be using.
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Adding Glossary To Menus

This part (below) needs to be written better, more later.

1. To create additional glossary entries, go to Administer>Categories (as you did above) and enter more.

Stephen Winters
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