By sungkhum on

Is there any way to change the default publishing options for a page (ex. Promoted to front page) based on what Category/Vocabulary they are in?

I want to always have my "News" category promoted to the front page without having to click the check box each time.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,
Nathan
http://www.sbbic.org

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venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

One more reason why the category module scores over taxonomy. You get individual publishing options for each container (vocab), each child container, each category (taxonomy term) and each child category.

How is this possible? Because the category module implements both containers and categories as drupal node types.

Have fun: http://category.greenash.net.au

patrickharris’s picture

patrickharris commented

what happens if it isn't supported in the next Drupal release? Since I can almost do what I want without it, I'd rather not run the risk (I guess this risk applies to most modules, but Category is more expansive in its aims than most). I wonder if any of the Category ideas will eventually be incorporated into Drupal core?

venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

I agree category may be overkill for your specific question in this thread, but it is way beyond anything taxonomy currently offers.

I can't speak for Jaza, but I see no reason why it will not be supported in the next release. It is a serious accomplishment that answers many deficiencies of the current taxonomy system, at the same time taking care of backwards compatibility. Interestingly enough, since it is based on core book and taxonomy modules, it also inherits their minuses, with some developers arguing for an alternate approach that is based more on relationships and less on taxonomy.

sungkhum’s picture

sungkhum commented

I'm running a multilingual site - tried moving over to the category module (given, I am no expert) and basically had to reconfigure - go back to the normal durpal taxonomy and re-point all my aliases to the correct nodes (I couldn't figure out how to use the backup the module made...).

It just wasn't worth the trouble for me. Maybe I will mess around with it on my local install next time (I couldn't even get the books or forums to work even though I had the extra modules [i forget what they were called now])...I think the module is just too big of a change, especially since I have two languages running.

Thanks for trying to help though.

-Nathan

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ktonini commented

i see two workarounds that should presumably work.

1. you use the workflow module (i've used it to publish content based on user role, so i'm assuming it can do it based on taxonomy term as well, and
2. you use the views module and create a view to replace your main content with just content containing the terms you want published.

I just wish there was a more lightweight solution as both workarounds seem like overkill for such a simple feature.

Any other suggestions?