How to create tag clouds with multiple vocabularies, filtered by views?
| Project: | Views Tagadelic |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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My forum post didn't have any takers, so I guess the next step is to bother you nice people with my problem. :)
I am currently working on using tag clouds to find out the most popular tags in relation to other tags. In explanation, I have three vocabularies:
* Applications
* Categories
* Roles
All these categories are set up for freetagging, and each node will have one or more tags in each category, The prime use for this setup is that I need to be able to select an Application, and see a cloud showing the most popular Roles for nodes tagged with that Application. At some point I might need to see the most popular Categories for an Application, but that's a while off.
I've only just gotten started and I'm already running into problems:
* Displaying tag clouds (using tagadelic_views) of Roles associated with a particular Application simply doesn't work. All Role tags are showed all the time regardless of the chosen Application.
* When I expose the Application tag filter, I can only get it to show a free-tagging-style text field, rather than a drop-down menu. This isn't a huge deal, but since it's only a selector for existing tags, I would far rather have a drop-down menu than have to type in the tags.
So there you have it. Could anyone give me a couple pointers? Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
#1
Interesting problem, for sure.
Parsing large sets like this is a great use of views, and tagadelics visual cuing is also potentially powerful.
1 thing is views has no "or" statements yet. In Drupal 6 it will. So you can't merge vocabularies and compare like you want to, really, in a single query.
What I do for things like this is construct arguements, offering the user choice. For example, clicking on applications and see a list of roles associated with that application and then click on the role to see whatever the last thing is. This is a nice and relatively intuitive way to do things. You can't make the second arguement tagadelic style...maybe not even the first, but it is worth a try.
If I get a chance to implement the same I will post back here, as far as using tagadelic to accomplish it. I do this all the time with other site though that need arguement "gateways" to narrow content down.
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#2
this is true, and does not seem to work here too. Isn't the module supposed to extend default Tagadelic tags clouds generation using Views filtering features? Or is this a bug? Any clarification appreciated!
#3
This was a bug. I ran into it today on a project of mine. It's now fixed in the 5.x-1.x-dev version. If someone tests this, I'll turn this into a 5.x-1.1 release soon.
#4
#5
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.