By mattengland on

Hello,

I have a multi-user, Drupal-based blog site that is dominated by lots of daily, detailed-oriented posts with taxonomy/category labels of 'dailylog' and 'swdev'...posted by my software developers for their frequent status updates...which is exactly what I wanted them to do.

However, this is not good for the non-sw-development readers, like sales, business, marketing, managers, etc; they just want the "bigger" news stories and status updates, not all nitty-gritty details about our swdevelopment every day.

To this end: is there a means in Drupal by which I can "filter out" certain categories (in this case the 'dailylog' and 'swdev' categories) from my "main" blogs display so that the average corporate blogs reader can view the "big" stuff without the clutter of the my swdev group's details?

Also, in general, what mechanisms exist to manage what gets automatically posted to the main blog display?

-Matt

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mattengland’s picture

mattengland commented

Any thoughts on this? I was under the impression this might be an easy one to answer (maybe it's so easy I should be RTFM-ing?).

-Matt

ghankstef’s picture

ghankstef commented

Couldn't you just have them post articles, or blog posts and assign it to a taxonomy term? Then business users can look at the appropriate taxonomy tree - ditto for developers?

Maybe this is too simplistic for you

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mattengland commented

Hi ghankstef,

Thanks for your response. I do not follow what you mean. I'll clarify my point, in hopes that this helps:

My Drupal site is for blogs, and blogs only. There are no overal editors/managers of content, and I'm not sure what a "business user" is.

I manager a startup company, and most of the bloggers are software developers reporting their status, but there are other posters talking about other company events, news (eg, new sales accounts, new patent ideas, etc). This all sits on behind an SSL firewall-ed server which effectively makes it a private intranet.

I want to filter the daily developer comments off the main page so that the rest of the corporate readers see only the "bigger" headlines.

Basically: my blog site is a collective newspaper, and I don't want all the small stories to hit the front page.

I'm baffled, stunned, and amazed that this is not one of the most-commonly-addressed issue of a content-management/blog system administrator for Drupal.

Can anyone provide further help?

-Matt

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yvelle commented

Perhaps the taxonomy access control module will help? I think you can set the anonymous user to only have be able to see nodes associated with select terms from the taxonomy. I haven't played with it in a long time, however.

eas-1’s picture

eas-1 commented

If I'm understanding this right, you don't want the software developers blog posts to be promoted to the front page.

From what I can tell, there really isn't a good way to do this. You can administer the blog content type to so that blog posts don't get displayed on the front page by default, but then you'll have to give everyone administer node permissions if you want them to be able to flag their posts for the front page themselves.

Maybe you could use the front_page module to create a front page that filters based on taxonomy terms?

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sepeck commented

Setup workflow so that nobody has their stuff posted to the front page automatically (?q=admin/node/configure/types)

Use Taxonomy browser to build out the taxonomy list you want (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_browser). You can then set that taxonomy term as the default front page in q=admin/settings Default front page. You can then use menu module to set other commonly used taxo terms to other things.

I'm stunned you missed it, baffled even as it's so basic that it isn't a common problem. Words are great, especially hot button emotional words arn't they? You can do so much with them. Tug at heart strings, express amazement and lots of other stuff too. :)

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