Posted by joachim on March 25, 2007 at 2:14pm
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| Project: | Station |
| Version: | 5.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Schedule |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (won't fix) |
Issue Summary
Not all radio shows have a genre, and some have none at all.
For example, community radio in the UK (that's what I'm working on ;) has a legal obligation to provide 40% talk. Some shows won't have any music at all, and some will be quite eclectic.
I would suggest the genre field be optional, or be a more general description of the show.
Comments
#1
Genre:talk. Will that work in your circumstance?
#2
Except that the field hint doesn't really invite that:
'A free-form description of the musical genres played on the program.'
My station is (at the moment) very very eclectic, so I don't think the genre field is useful to us.
#3
Would a different label be a solution? On my site we use a taxonomy to categorize shows by format and genre. The genre field is used to give a one line description, and the body a longer description.
#4
Yes, that would be the simplest change to make.
I'm going to change it on my site to:
'#description' => t('A brief description of the program\'s content and musical genres.'),
(station/program/station_program.module, line 104)
and I'll report back on how volunteers get on with that once they start using it :)
#5
> Would a different label be a solution? On my site we use a taxonomy to categorize shows by format and genre. The genre field is used to give a one line description, and the body a longer description.
I think there's a design decision involved here.
Is the "genre" field meant to be a short description of the program to be shown in schedules and lists, or is it a free-form taxonomy?
If the former, the label could do with being changed.
If the latter, it might be better and cleaner to depend on the taxonomy module and to automatically create a vocabulary via that (the same way the image module creates a gallery vocab).
#6
It's not meant to overlap with the taxonomy module, it's there to give you a short description of the format for use in the teaser and on the schedule. I'm not sure I want to require a vocabulary as they're easy enough to add and some people may not need it.
I think the label genre works because even talk shows have genres, call in, interview, news, etc. At this point updating the description is a good idea.
#7
with the views support committed in #194288 you should be able to put what ever fields you want on the schedule's day view. i'm sort of tempted to move the genre into a CCK text field...
#8
okay, now it's optional. not sure i like it though.
#9
Yes, I see what you mean... it's an extra setting to store & deal with etc etc.
It's a long time since I filed this, but it's possible I actually meant make it optional in the sense that filling in the field shouldn't be compulsory...
#10
well roger was complaining about it too over on http://drupal.org/node/196477 so you're not the only that has gripes with it ;)
#11
Aha, found this old comment searching before logging an issue.
I don't think I have an issue now, except with nomenclature :) My original issue was based on a misunderstanding of the field's meaning, so I don't think the field's label is fine as "genre". (I wanted to pick genres from a taxonomy, I'd already created a vocab called "genre" before I found the Station module). I think a label like "teaser" or "overview" might cause less confusion.
[edit: my first post and didn't realise these came out unthreaded. it's meant to be in response to drewish's #6]
#12
The Drupal 5 versions are no longer supported, if someone would like to step up to co-maintain it then please do so, otherwise future work will only happen for D6 and D7. Thank you.