Posted by socialtalker on March 14, 2013 at 3:32pm
Hello, I dont know where I should ask this, whether in the chat, group or forum, i will try the forum first. I am building a web site where the primary feature will be making users making collections of things. okay like video or audio playlist, but the items in each collection can be anything, or link to those items..one collection might have a speech mp3, or a picture, a recipe, a video, etc
users can create multiple collections if they want. the collections can be shared, and catagorized, voted on, traded, sold, for example. is there a mod or view creation that will do this? thank you.
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There's not much detail there to go on, but there's really nothing special about this type of functionality-- it's what you build with drupal. You can either create one custom content type with all the fields you need for each item, or you can create one content type for each type of item with just the fields for that item (ie 'video', 'audio', 'image', 'recipe', 'other', etc). You would then use the views contributed module to display lists of that content.
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Thanks for responding WorldFallz
Its a big relief to see that drupal masters like you still man the forums to answer questions.
I am very happy to know that my idea is attainable with drupal's current tools. I confess I am many times i am overwhelmed just what can and cant be done in choosing among the thousands of drupal modules.
I dont see any "views contributed" module, am I misunderstanding you? i was looking thru the whole catagory of views and didnt see it.
I was looking at the Nodequeue module. could this work?
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I still enjoy answering questions in the forums-- helping users out in the forums is basically how I learned the ins and outs of drupal in the first place!
And whenever you see a reference to views, 99.99999% of the time it's for: http://drupal.org/project/views (which has been added to core for d8).
And you could use nodequeue for this as well-- especially if you want to be able to order the collections randomly.
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excellent
i will try out both your method and the nodequeue mod, thanks again.