By Swooperz on

Hi All. I have put up an online magazine with 7 main articles that will appear each month and I know I am not using Taxonomy right now to my advantage because I don't fully understand it (and I can't get terms to appear under anything but the root level.)

Right now I have each article being linked to directly for this month and I know I will want it under a category instead, such as "Sports Nutrition" or "Training."

My question is, how do I get it set up with a vocabulary, where when I create next month's articles; the new articles will appear for that category and the old ones will go to the archives?

How can I best use Taxonomy with this online monthly magazine? I just don't fully have a grasp on the whole taxonomy concept and how old posts/articles get archived and then get replaced with the new posts/articles?

Thanks in advance for your time in explaining this concept to me.

Happy Holiday Everyone! :)

PS - The other issue with setting up vocabulary and terms is that when I do an 'Add Term' under a newly created vocablulary, the only level to put that term under is under the . I want to put that term under the vocab I just created but it's not showing up in the drop-down.

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kim-werker’s picture

kim-werker commented

Have you seen the E-Publish module? I'm in the process of transferring my online mag into Drupal, and I'm looking into using E-Publish, but I haven't tried it yet. I think this module may help with automatically archiving old issues and promoting new issues. I'm just doing it by hand now, by updating menu links when a new issue goes up.

My site's about crochet, and so far I've organized my content with vocabularies like Issue, Pattern Type, Fiber, etc., and I'm using the Taxonomy Browser module to allow users to browse to content based on these taxonomic criteria.

When I prepare a new issue for publication, I'll just select the proper terms for each article, and that will be that. Having a taxonomy for Issue allows me to group content by when it was published. I also tie ads into which issue they appeared in.

Re: setting up new taxonomy terms, I'm not sure why they're not showing up. It looks like a word or two is missing from your question about this? If you've set up a "single" or "multiple" hierarchy, you can leave the "parent" drop-down without selecting anything and the new term should show up in the vocabulary you just set up. I'm not sure if that's clear or if it helps...

Cheers,
Kim

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This is your brain on yarn.

radiofranky’s picture

radiofranky commented

did u hard code this in ur front page?

"Issue 8 | December 2005/January 2006" or is generated with e-publish?
if u did automatically could u show me how?

tks

kim-werker’s picture

kim-werker commented

That site is my first Drupal installation -- I'm really not an expert at all.

The issue information is hard coded, and I used the Front Page module to make that page look different from the rest of the site.

I plan to move to making as much automated as possible, but for now I'm still relying on hard coding some things.

Kim

http://www.crochetme.com
This is your brain on yarn.

radiofranky’s picture

radiofranky commented

one more question.. once u done with "Advanced category search" with taxonomy browser..

how do u generate a page witht that category?
for example, I want to generate a menu with

"international" "local"
when user click on international, it shows a comprehensive international new from around the world

and when user click on local, the same page format appears but with local news instead.

U looks like knows a lot and u have a very nice website..

could u share some of ur knowledge with me? tks

s

kim-werker’s picture

kim-werker commented

I don't think I found an ideal way of doing this; it's on my (very long) list of things to revisit.

At my site, the "features" and "patterns" links in the menu were generated after I did a category search for the current issue along with content type (we custom coded a "features" and "patterns" module, and I limited my search to the appropriate content type), and I hard coded that link into the menu. Totally not ideal, but it serves my purpose. The only thing is that if there's a long list of results, the second page of results doesn't contain the correct information. I'm not sure why this is.

I'm sure this isn't as helpful as you'd liked. As I refine the functionality of my site I'll definitely share!

Cheers,
Kim

http://www.crochetme.com
This is your brain on yarn.

radiofranky’s picture

radiofranky commented

what module did u use to display

www.crochetme.com/file-name.htm instead of node number?

tks

kim-werker’s picture

kim-werker commented

For the pages that display xxx.html, I just filled in the field called "alias" on the content creation page. (I used this feature to make sure that bookmarks to the content continue to work after I imported it into Drupal.)

For new content, I use the Pathauto module, which automatically creates the user- and search engine-friendlier alias.

Cheers,
Kim

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http://www.crochetme.com
This is your brain on yarn.

Swooperz’s picture

Swooperz commented

I haven't tried ePublish yet, but I am going to try and test it out today.

The missing word from my orig post was "root", which was dropped maybe because I put brackets around it.

Thanks for the reply, I will keep you updated on my usccess with ePublish.

venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

I just don't fully have a grasp on the whole taxonomy concept and how old posts/articles get archived and then get replaced with the new posts/articles?

The taxonews module may be useful:
http://drupal.org/node/34460

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venkat-rk commented

The other issue with setting up vocabulary and terms is that when I do an 'Add Term' under a newly created vocablulary, the only level to put that term under is under the . I want to put that term under the vocab I just created but it's not showing up in the drop-down.

As of now, a vocabulary is neither a node nor gets a page listing in drupal. Think of it as just a container for collecting terms. So, what you need is to create an initial term and choose <root> as its parent. This makes it the parent term for that vocabulary. And then when you add other terms, choose the parent term as the parent for those terms. This should get you started.

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robert castelo commented

Once you have the taxonomy of your site set up as you like it, take a look at the eNewsletter module, which enables users to subscribe to an email version of your magazine. It's a good way to keep users coming back to the site and reading new articles.

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Swooperz commented

Thanks everyone for their posts!

I think with my Taxonomy issue, I was not choosing "root" for the parent term (it just looked like it was already selected, being the ONLY selection available.) Maybe that is what I was missing.

As for archiving my articles, I will try out this ePublish module and see if that meets my needs. If anyone has any other suggestions on archiving, please let me know.

Thanks again and Happy Holidays. :)