I am trying to setup drupal 5.1 site to use the Categories module.
What I need to have happen is this:
CREATE CONTENT gets clicked, story is entered in the text area.
poster MUST choose categories.
Poster should see 1 drop down (style of writing)
Story/Novel
Poetry
Report
etc
and a second box which shows the
choices of sub-category appropriate.
IE, user chooses STORY/NOVEL for first choice of category
Second drop down shows only genre's appropriate (action, sci fi, etc) to the user.
Choosing different style of writing shows ONLY the appropriate choices of sub category (haiku poetry, limerick, etc)
Can anyone help with this ?
Ive spent hours pouring over websites, forum posts, and the module website, to no avail.
Sean
Comments
Could you use 3 different
Could you use 3 different content types and a separate vocabulary for each or is that solution not close enough to what you want?
For the Poetry content type you could use a 4th vocabulary to tell whether it was a haiku poetry, limerick, etc.
If needed, maybe you could use the User Force Term module to force the user to select a term (I haven't used it myself though).
Well the problem with 3
Well the problem with 3 different content types is this:
The user would be clicking on "Post poetry" "Post story" or "Post paper" where 1 "create content" would be a cleaner look.
Active menus?
It seems to me that you would want your menus to change based on what type of writing is being chosen. I don't know if this is possible using Categories, but you may be able to devise a plan using the Active Select module or the dependantDropdown module to achieve your goal.
Please do post back here to let us know how this works if you choose to go this route.
Jason
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Sorry, forgot to mention, I
Sorry, forgot to mention, I am using Categories and Activeselect modules.
However it should only show the correct sub categories for the type of writing.
Ive been trying to set it up but instead of having just the two drop down selectors, I keep getting multiple ones due to the containers which many would not apply.
Well, Im still having issues
Well, Im still having issues with Categories and Activeselct.
So far, I have deleted, and recreated containers left and right, moving things around back and forth up and down to no avail.
I am trying to get the effect of this:
CLICK POST CONTENT
enter in message
CATEGORY SELECTION
|
| Drop down menu 1 Drop down menu 2
|
-----------Poetry
|___________________________Poetry 1
|___________________________Poetry 2
|___________________________Poetry 3
|---------Story
|__________________________Story type 1
|__________________________Story type 2
|__________________________Story type 3
Can anyone assist with this ?
Ive been going over the docs for the module but I must be missing something, I havent come up with a method to only have 2 menus. 1 for choose story or poetry 1 for category of writing.
Sean
This issue is resolved
A user contacted me via email, provided a few suggestions,
and I ended up going back to uninstalling Categories and using Taxonomy.
Thanks for the help everyone. :>
Sean
This can be done with
This can be done with categories; if someone else is interested. Look at my reply on http://drupal.org/node/124596