Basic taxonomy features missing?

By Hory on 7 Nov 2005 at 01:39 UTC

Hey folks,
I've been playing with drupal for some time now, but I oddly seem to be stuck at doing the simplest things (theoretically). And those are:

1) Displaying a page with all the taxonomy terms a node type can have. With sitemap/sitemenu/article modules, I can only make it so that I have *1* customized page with the list of terms from certain vocabularies. But I can't seem to generate the list dynamically, for a specified type of content. I just want something in the style of "Forums", but for different content types, like "story", for example.

2) Displaying a list of all the nodes of a certain type (similar to the "/node" view, but of only the nodes of a certain type, and no matter if they've been promoted to front page or not - using node_type_filter in conjuction with "/node" only shows the ones promoted to front page).

I know that with PHP/SQL almost anything can be done manually, but I find it odd that doing something this simple / common would require custom coding. Am I missing something?
Thanks.

Comments

try other modules

jt6919 commented 7 November 2005 at 05:41

I also have felt that basic taxonomy features were lacking out of the box. But there are tons of taxonomy modules to do most anything you could want?

Have you tried the taxonomy_dhtml module? It puts your terms as navigation and creates a page with all terms listed out in expandable and collapsable items. the layout leaves a bit to be desired, but it works.

Hmm

Jaza commented 7 November 2005 at 13:14

1) As far as I know, there is nothing currently around that does this. I guess it's just not an itch that any developer has ever needed to scratch. If all of your terms for a particular node type are in a few well-defined vocabularies, however, you could use a module such as taxonomy_dhtml to generate this list for you (but it would be based on vocabs, not on node types).

2) I think the new advanced search functionality in HEAD (soon-to-be 4.7) can do this, although this probably isn't what you want to use for displaying such a list. Once again, this may seem like something simple/common to you, but if it was really that common for users to want it, someone would have developed it by now.

OK, maybe that last statement was an unfounded assertion :-). But seriously, there must be at least some truth in it.

Jeremy Epstein - GreenAsh