I want to create a FAQ that has sections, to replace this old one I did a long time ago:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/R/Rtips.html

My plan is to create a taxonomy to group together the questions. If there's a better way than Drupal FAQ module, please tell me now. I will gladly change approach.

I have installed Drupal 7.7 and am trying to make FAQ module work, but I'm going crazy trying to make categories work. Whenever I turn on categories, then nothing shows on the faq-page.

I found this comment by stella, but I just can't understand it.

http://drupal.org/node/1040102#comment-4915638

I'm not a Drupal expert, can someone translate? How do I connect a Taxonomy to the FAQ type? My Taxonomy is called Rtips. Am I supposed to be messing about in Views ( admin/structure/views/view/faq/edit) or in the FAQ part ( admin/structure/types/manage/faq/fields ). Know what I mean? When I get there, what am I supposed to do? "Add new field" named what??? and NAME should be field_ ??

I'm sorry to be so literal. And thanks in advance if you are patient enough to write this down. Perhaps you can t-y-p-e s-l-o-w-l-y for me :)

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dougsap’s picture

dougsap commented

Hi Paul, I am quite new to drupal, not an expert on this module, and as a matter of fact this is my first post in drupal.org (so be gentle). However, I was similarly confused, and the following may help.

Watch Johan Falk of Nodeone's 11 minute screencast titled "Learn Drupal 7 with NodeOne, part 13: Taxonomy, vocabularies and terms". http://nodeone.se/node/750

Then, I think these are the (somewhat abbreviated) steps you need to do (I just solved my similar problem on D7.7):

admin/structure/taxonomy/add
add Vocabulary name ~FAQ categories~
add Terms related to ~FAQ categories~ such as ~General~, ~Foobar 1~, ~Foobar 2~, etc.

admin/structure/types/manage/faq/fields (for the FAQ Content Type)
Add field ~FAQ category / field_faq_category~, field type = “Term reference”, Widget = “Select list”
in Operations / Edit for ~FAQ category~ assign ~FAQ categories~ as the Vocabulary (Number of Values = 1).

When you maintain your FAQ content, make sure that you select a value for ~FAQ Category~, I actually made mine a required field.

Now, when you go to /faq-page you will see your categorized FAQs. I still need to do some work on mine to make them pleasing to the eye. Good luck!

Steven Brown’s picture

Steven Brown commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Marking as fixed due to the issue being 2 months old with no response from pauljohn32 regarding that the suggestion from dougsap worked or didn't work.

If it didn't work then please re-open the issue.

mototribe’s picture

mototribe commented

it did work for me

devilvi’s picture

devilvi commented

it did work for me also

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

DriesM’s picture

DriesM commented

Thanks! worked like a charm!