By tinamama on

i saw this talked about in another thread, but it didn't really give me info on how to do it, since it seemed to be talking about how not to do it.

what i want is to not have really long pages...i have some content that is getting quite wordy and i would like to have page numbers at the bottom of the page 1l2l3l4l5lNext page that sort of thing...to split the page up into shorter pages.

how do i do this?

thanks in advance!

tina

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heine commented

http://drupal.org/project/paging

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trantt commented

paging version 4.7x and 4.6x are working fine but however, I don't think version 5.1 is working at all http://drupal.org/node/113072

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heine commented

It works fine, but has a fairly confusing interface.

1. Enable paging for the content types you want to use it on (admin/settings/paging).
2. Enable the paging filter for the relevant input format (usually filtered html; admin/settings/filters/1).

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trantt commented

You are the man Heine. The filter section ( admin/settings/filters ) is mine missing step... Thanks

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tinamama commented

there are no install instructions in the folder, as far as i can tell....i'm guessing i just upload the folder to the modules directory on my server? is that right?

tina

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heine commented

Correct. You could upload the paging folder to sites/all/modules to seperate it better from core modules.

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tinamama commented

i just put it in the modules directory and voila its there...yay! (new to drupal, this is all amazing to me, lol!)

but i can't figure out how to get it to work...i thought i understood, but apparently not because its not working....can you walk me through it step by step? i'm guessing it doesn't have many steps, so i hope that's not a huge request. :)

tina

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heine commented
  1. Visit Administer » Site building » Modules (admin/build/modules) and enable Paging.
  2. Visit Administer » Site configuration » Paging (admin/settings/paging). There, check all the boxes for content types (Node Types) you wish to use Paging with (eg Story). I suggest to keep the seperator <!--pagebreak-->.
  3. Visit Administer » Site configuration » Input formats (admin/settings/filters). Click configure for the input format you want to enable the paging filter on (usually Filtered HTML). On the resulting page, you'll see a fieldset titled 'Filters', where you need to put a check in front of Paging. Make sure it comes after ie has a higher weight than the HTML filter (you can rearrange filters on the rearrange tab). Save the configuration. If you use different input formats and want to enable paging for those as well, you will need to repeat this step for the other input formats.
  4. Create content (eg Story) and seperate pages with <!--pagebreak-->.

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tinamama commented

thank you VERY much for the step by step! i didn't know anything about the step 3 part...was wondering what people were talking about with filters...got that now, thanks!

but its still not working! i'm just supposed to be able to paste the pagebreak code in the middle of the text, right? no special way to do that? doesn't need spaces above and below or anything?

i don't know why its still not working, argh.

tina

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heine commented

Time to file an issue, or add to an existing one I'd say.

Make sure to include at least the following information:

- Version of Drupal
- Version of Paging
- Version of PHP
- A summary of what you did to configure the module.
- What content type you used paging on (Story, Page, a CCK content type?).

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tinamama commented

i thought maybe i was supposed to just paste that pagebreak separator when i want it to make a new page...but that's not working...i'm not getting pages and i followed what you said above...what am i doing wrong?

tina

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tinamama commented

i followed all the instructions above...checked and double checked and its still not working...what's next?

tina

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Red Clown commented

When you edit your page, make sure that under Input format you select "Filtered HTML" because the Paging module will only be enabled for that format.

Secondly, if you are using a rich text editor like TinyMCE, you need to use the HTML button to view the HTML markup. You must insert your pagebreak tag in the HTML-marked text not in the regular text. You might find this easier to do the first time if you switch off TinyMCE.

If you do all this, you should see the page break after you submit.

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phil88 commented

I would like all of my stories to have page breaks at about the same position.

Does this Paging support the following:
1) Set the word count for page break position of a node?

If not, is there another module that allows for this?