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By doulos12 on
On our site, techtalkforfamilies.com, we do news and reviews of consumer electronics, toys, and video games. We'll often have, for example, a video game where we announce it, then maybe some screenshots or other preview info, then announce its launch, then a review later & maybe other news.
What I'm looking for is some way to unify all of the nodes that relate to one particular item. Also, as info comes out about a game (ESRB Rating, # of players, price, etc.), it'd be nice to have that info in a block that's somehow attached to that game, so as more info comes out, all related nodes are updated with the new info (or the updated info shows up in a block with all related nodes).
Is this possible with Drupal?
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Using free tagging to gather up all nodes on a particular topi
Hmm, there may be several spiffy, technically-lofty solutions, but as a true newbie I wouldn't know of them. In my newbie-ness, the best I can think of is free tagging. Create a Vocabulary allowing free input of terms, and then for each node connected to a product – blog posting, article, review, whatever – be sure to include that product's name as a tag (i.e., term). From there, you'd be set to use Views to create lists or blocks bringing together all nodes with the tag.
I suggest free tagging, not a Vocabulary with a list of pre-determined terms, as I assume you'll have a large and growing list of products covered, making a fixed list a nuisance to maintain. The downside of free tagging, on the other hand, is you'll have to establish editorial conventions to ensure that any product is given a consistent tag every time – if you have a block listing all nodes tagged with "ToshibaX500", it'll miss nodes inconsistently tagged with "Toshiba X 500".
Well, that's one simple method using readily-available tools; do you require something more advanced?
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use taxonomy
create a category games where you put in all the games you have content for. create different content types (preview / review / screenshots / whatever) and glue these together by a taxonomy selection.
or you do it with just nodereference or something by cck.