By mr_dimsum on

I still haven't figured this one out. I want the free tagging from taxonomy to be used solely as tagging. It's great in how it already functions, but I want to achieve a level of sophistication with my content that exceeds what it can offer.

My site will feature a few particular types of custom content-types (Album Review, Rumors/Gossip, News, Photo Galleries). I also want another content-type that will be used to create Artist Profiles.

The holy grail of this implementation would be, so that when a content-type (E.g., Album Review) is being created, that it can be associated with a primary/master content (this is the Artist Profile). Little good tidbits would be to get an Ajax enabled custom field to implement this or something, but that's just icing on the cake.

Does anyone know of an existing module that does this? Is the Connect.module capable of this? Anything else?

Thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x

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WorldFallz commented

There are several... node family... node relativity... node hierarchy... node queue.... check em out and taker yer pick.

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mr_dimsum commented

Thanks for the replies.. I'll take a look at those. So the Connect.module actually serves a different purpose?

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WorldFallz commented

No, it looks like it does also.... but you already mentioned that one so I didn't think it need to be repeated, lol.

Finding the right module to use can sometimes be a bit daunting... especially when there's multiple choices for the what appears to be the same function. The project is aware of this and actively working on a solution (modules ratings, quality metrics, etc), but for the time being what I suggest to people is to set up a scratch site and just load up the modules your considering and take a look and see which one(s) meet your functional requirements. I use a multi site drupal install for my dev env and always have a subsite dedicated to testing modules (and keep it fresh and ready to go with the demo site module). It can take all of 5 mins to load up a module, try it out, and decide "no, thats not it" or "yep, thats the one".

If you're still having to decide between several choices, take a look a the issues queue and see how active it is and how responsive the maintainers are.

hope that helps....