Views Cloud: Documentation?

Views Cloud is just a style plugin for Views. Just create your view as always and use the Cloud style to display the results of the view.

-> http://drupal.org/node/311236#comment-1103701

Import example view to have anything working, then carefully adjust it
for your needs.

I'm leaving it active, not fixed, because obviously communitz needs clear
documentation here.

Szy.

Ok, I'll take a stab at getting something started. Feel free to edit/use as needed.

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Getting Started with Views Cloud

This documentation explains how to set up a view of Taxonomy Terms weighted by the number of nodes assigned to the term.

1. Install module as usual (unzip to sites/all/modules directory, enable in admin/build/modules).
2. Go to admin/build/views and add a NODE view.
3. Add Fields:
--Taxonomy:Term
----Remove default label text
----If desired, select "Link this field to its taxonomy term page"
--Node statistics: Total Views
----Exclude from display
4. Add Argument (the view must have an argument, even if no value is provided)
--Taxonomy:Term
----Set Title if desired
----For "Action to take if argument is not present," choose "Summary, sorted descending" or "Summary, sorted ascending"
----Set argument style to "cloud", then select associated options
5. Under "Basic Settings," set the style to "Cloud"
--Grouping Field: Taxonomy:Term
--Cloud weight field: Total Views
--Select "Hide weight field" and/or "Randomize the order of items" if desired

If you haven't already done so, this is a good time to save your view.

6. Add block (or other desired view), and enable in admin/build/blocks as usual.
6. Add at least a page view and then any other desired view. If using a block view, do not forget to activate it in admin/build/blocks.

7. If the block breaks your display in IE, add the CSS posted at
http://drupal.org/node/379298 to your theme css file.

Do any cloud has to be based on statistics ?

I don't want my tagcloud to be weighted bt "popularity" but rather by occurences of the tags. I cannot find how to do this.

Help or documentation will be much appreciated. This module seems to introduce a great way to make clouds. Thanks

Hello.

The Documentation above #4 should be changed in number 6. If you do not add a page view, the tags in e.g. the block direct to your front page. So maybe it should be written something like this:

6. Add at least a page and then any other desired view. Do not forget to activate e.g. your block in admin/build/blocks.

This did cost me an amount of time to find out. Some documentation in the handbooks would be fine.

CYA
JThan

Thanks JThan, I kind of wrote the instructions on the fly, so I'm editing to include your revision.

+1 for #5

but maybe it's already possible?

great module and it can be a more generic solution then tagadelic + tagadelic views ...
but: things, that are self-explanatory for the module developer are often not clear for the normal user: i didn't understand anything about how to configure this module and only the posted exported view in another issue saved me ...

thanks and greetings momper

Hi all,

It's true I'm quite new to views - so have to ask you for help.

I'm able to make my own cloud /it's almost like in the example above/ but have a problem with cloud taxonomy term's links.
I would like them to directly link to nodes list having clicked term set.

What I'm getting is a list /not sure what is this but it seems it a list of nodes with selected in cloud term field only.
And finally links (all) on that list gives me list of nodes with proper term.

It looks like that:

1. Nice cloude showing term: AAA BBB CCC - click on BBB
2. I am getting long list like this:

BBB
BBB
BBB
BBB
BBB
BBB

3. - click on any BBB gives me finally my expected nodes list.

I would like to omit point 2. list of BBB, just go directly to my nodes list.

Thanks for help in advance :)

What happens if i dont want a multi layer taxonomy cloud? What happens if I want a tag cloud of all of the tags in a specific vocabulary (doesn't matter about order in this case), and when you click the link it takes you to the taxonomy list page. (/category/

If I ignore point 4 (Add Argument ) then this works great apart from the fact that I get repetitions in the listing, i.e. If 2 pages are tagged "Spain" then Spain appears twice in the results. If I "group by" the term under cloud styling options, this just puts them together e.g Spain, Spain, Europe, Europe

If I Add an argument like in point 4, then I don't get the repetition of terms but none of the links work, they go to the home page. OK, you mention above that I should create a view page as well, but I don't want to go to a page like that when I click on the links, I want to go to the taxonomy listing page.

Is this possible?
Thanks
Will Eaton

Basically when you browse to my site (http://www.patton-tech.com/) on the right hand is the cloud, clicking on one of the members of the cloud takes you to the proper taxonomy page for that term. I accomplished this by following the directions in the posting 4 above and then for the Page view changing the path from cloud to taxonomy/term. I had noticed that the number trailing cloud path was the ID of the tag, so changing the path made it go. I have no idea if this works for any other configurations for the cloud, but it did work for me.

Thanks for the really cool module!

I've made a README for the project that will be included in the next version http://drupalcode.org/viewvc/drupal/contributions/modules/views_cloud/RE.... Let's open new issues for incremental changes to the readme.

Hello,

i followed the instructions EXTACTLY as stated in #4 but I can't get the cloud to show anything else but the ordered Tags which will show up if no argument works ("Action to take if argument is not present").

I figure the cloud NEEDS an argument (or more) to know WHAT terms to display. Am I wrong here? How does it know, what terms to display? Where does it take the input from?

If i put the cloud on a node page or on a views result page doesn't make a difference. It always shows the terms starting from A or Z depending on what i set in "Action to take if argument is not present".

What am i missing here?